Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

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   If Not a Nemesis, a Mirror?

  Chris Featherman looks at Marlène Laruelle’s “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime.”

  Chris FeathermanJun 4

  • Politics

  • Cultural Studies

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  An Asynchronous Patchwork

  Matthew Longo examines Ed Pulford’s studies of culture and temporality within the China-Russia-Korea borderlands.

  Matthew LongoMay 29

  • Cultural Studies

  • Politics

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  We’re Not Happy Until You’re Not Happy

  Diana Heald reviews Sophie Gilbert’s “Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves.”

  Diana HealdMay 22

  • Cultural Studies

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  Sneering at, or with, “The White Lotus”

  Kyle Stevens examines the farce at the heart of the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”

  Kyle StevensMay 12

  • Cultural Studies

  • Television

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  Riding the Korean Wave

  Oliver Wang interviews Euny Hong about her expanded edition of “The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.”

  Oliver WangMay 5

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Cultural Studies

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  An Irishman’s Love Letter to Saigon

  Mary Kay Magistad investigates Connla Stokes’s “Falling for Saigon.”

  Mary Kay MagistadMay 2

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Cultural Studies

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  Sitting with the Grief

  Jenna N. Hanchey explores the recent anthology “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction,” edited by Eugen Bacon.

  Jenna N. HancheyApr 24

  • Cultural Studies

  • SF

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  “We’re All Chinese, Aren’t We?”

  Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”

  Jessie LauApr 21

  • Politics

  • Cultural Studies

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  More and Scarier Monsters, Always

  Vanessa Evans reviews the new critical anthology “Global Indigenous Horror,” edited by Naomi Simone Borwein.

  Vanessa EvansApr 20

  • Literary Criticism

  • SF

  • Cultural Studies

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  How Can Everything Hit Different?

  Somebody is lying.

  Ashwin Rodrigues Apr 18

  • Cultural Studies

  • Memoir & Essay

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  A Chorus of Contradictions

  Adedayo Agarau reviews W. J. Lofton’s collection “boy maybe.”

  Adedayo AgarauApr 3

  • Poetry

  • Cultural Studies

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  Is the Media Alright?

  LARB Radio Hour presents excerpts from the February 2025 live discussion and podcast taping on the current challenges facing the media.

  Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Leslie Berestein Rojas, Oscar GarzaMar 24

  • Politics

  • Cultural Studies