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Imagining a More Habitable Present: On Grafton Tanner’s “The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia”
Tanner’s new book examines how nostalgia circulates in our culture both innocuously and destructively....
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Cultural Studies
Explicit and Confounding Books: On Christopher Hilliard’s “A Matter of Obscenity”
A lucid and engaging cultural history of censorship debates in Britain from 1857 to 1979....
Learning in Being Lonely: On Jay Caspian Kang’s “The Loneliest Americans”
Summer Kim Lee reviews “The Loneliest Americans,” the new book by Jay Caspian Kang....
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Where’s ‘the Discourse’?”
A transcript of the panel discussion “Where’s ‘the Discourse’?” – a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on October 7....
Say the Word: On Amanda Montell’s “Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism”
Words and their power are at the heart of Amanda Montell’s new book....
Scandal on the Dance Floor
The allure of mixed-sex dancing in Jewish literature and contemporary popular culture....
Waves of Transformation: Five Women of the Chicago Avant-Garde
LARB presents an excerpt from “Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time.”...
The Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Era: On John B. Thompson’s “Book Wars”
A new book maps how the publishing ecosystem has persisted and morphed in the digital environment....
Corpse Capitalism: On John Troyer’s “Technologies of the Human Corpse”
A curiously optimistic new study of the commercial exploitation of dead bodies....
If It Isn’t Broken: A Conversation with Justine Bateman
Justine Bateman discusses her new book, “Face,” which examines the lengths many women go to in order to “fix” their aging faces....
Strategic Audio: Podcasts, Propaganda, and the Fairy Tales of Data Mining
Michelle Chihara explores the podcast form as a vehicle for corporate puffery masquerading as journalistic inquiry....
Antiseptic Glass Stream
Sun-ha Hong deconstructs the “paradox of intimacy and disconnection” at the heart of the Peloton fitness brand....
Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes
Mark Haskell Smith talks Athenian rudeness with Aaron Poochigian, translator of “Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly.”...
Behind Closed Doors: America’s Couple Therapy Entertainment Complex
Every generation gets the iconic couples therapist it deserves....
The Comedian in Pain
If our great comics have all been martyrs, maybe the great martyrs were also comics....
At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”
An inquiry into a fierce culture war shines light on an insular sect of Judaism....
Academic Affects: A Conversation on Guilty Pleasures
Sarah Mesle talks with Arielle Zibrak, Ana Quiring, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins about the “bad” feelings of aesthetic experience....
The Game of Critique
Andrew Fleshman reviews Patrick Jagoda’s “Experimental Games.”...
The Limits of Clean Lines: On Jordan Peterson’s “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life”
David Wolpe looks at the new book from Jordan Peterson, “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.”...
Pronominal Strife
Bryan A. Garner considers "What’s Your Pronoun?," the recently published book by Dennis Baron....
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”...
Pitching the Discipline
Sebastian Lecourt considers "Humanist Reason," the new book by Eric Hayot....
The Case for Loitering
Anandi Mishra meanders through “Aimlessness,” the new book by Tom Lutz....
A Look at Nothing: On Susan A. Crane’s “Nothing Happened: A History”
Vesper North considers "Nothing Happened," a new history by Susan A. Crane....
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