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The Freeway Novel
Skijler Hutson considers how the Los Angeles freeway system has figured in fiction.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
In Its Purest Form
Claire Messud reads “Lolita” on its 70th anniversary, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
At the Point of the Sword, Magic
Sarah McEachern reviews Clarice Lispector’s “Covert Joy: Selected Stories.”
The Metaphors Sustain
Anabelle Johnston reviews Mai Ishizawa’s “The Place of Shells,” translated by Polly Barton.
Hazy Passages
Tom Zoellner speaks with Sameer Pandya, author of “Our Beautiful Boys,” about football, India, teenage hazing, and the tyranny of success.
Working Out the Kinks
Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”
Dissidence and Resistance
Mitchell Abidor reviews Peter Weiss’s novel “The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III,” newly translated by Joel Scott.
Can the “E” in E-girl Stand for Ecstatic?
Leah Abrams reviews Sophie Kemp’s debut novel “Paradise Logic.”
Preparing for the Plunge
David Amsden returns to John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” while cruising Los Angeles’s rentable swimming pools.
Leaving and Arriving
Max Callimanopulos examines Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel “Theft.”
Morbid Symptoms Par Excellence
Irene Katz Connelly reviews Michelle de Kretser’s new novel “Theory & Practice.”
William Faulkner’s Polish Afterlife
Michał Choiński ponders the sudden popularity of new translations of William Faulkner’s novels in Poland.
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