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Disenchanted Enchantment
Jordan Williamson investigates Derek Lee’s “Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal” and Joshua Comaroff’s “Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore.”
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
Sound Epistemology
Alexander Billet listens to Damon Krukowski’s “Why Sound Matters.”
The Cancel-Culture Canard
Emmet Fraizer considers Adam Szetela’s “That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing.”
Common Roots
Martin Dolan explores labor, trade, and shared humanity in Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.”
F— Being Hard, De La Soul Is Complicated
Oliver Wang speaks with two De La Soul biographers, Dave Heaton and Marcus J. Moore, about their respective portrayals of the rap group’s complex legacy.
Proletarians of the Screen
Helena Aeberli investigates the aesthetics of memes and trash essays in Joanna Walsh’s “Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters.”
Vous écoutez RFI
Anna Gaca finally understands French, in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Goldilocks of Bothsidesism
Robert N. Watson investigates Thomas Chatterton Williams’s “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.”
Expats Dream About China’s City of Sin
Jeremy Murray reviews Paul French’s “Destination Macao.”
Tuck In
Helena Aeberli devours Ruby Tandoh’s “All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now.”
Cruising as Moral Practice
Jordan Osserman reads two recent queer theory books exploring the form and chemistry of sex.
The Dream of the 2000s Is Dead
Kristen Felicetti considers Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.”
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