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I … Am Herman Melville!
Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Bird by Bird, Brick by Brick
Meredith Maran interviews Danzy Senna about her new novel “Colored Television.”
The Comfort of Memory
Leo Lasdun reviews two debut novels at the end(?) of alt-lit: Gabriel Smith’s “Brat” and Matthew Davis’s “Let Me Try Again.”
You Dirty Beasts
Simon Lee reviews “Beasts of England” by Adam Biles, an update to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
A Match Made in Memes
Brittany Menjivar interviews actor, filmmaker, and meme admin Peter Vack about his debut novel, “Sillyboy.”
The Glory and Freedom of Our Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished
Nick Owchar reviews Reuben Woolley’s new translation of Andrey Kurkov’s “Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv.”
Pornography
Rhian Sasseen depicts the relationship between a lonely man and his phone—one that takes a sudden, surreal turn—in a short story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Social Justice for the Upper Middle Class?
Irene Katz Connelly reviews Jo Hamya’s novel “The Hypocrite.”
Splintered Loves, Splintered Selves
Raffi Joe Wartanian reviews Nancy Agabian’s “The Fear of Large and Small Nations.”
The Reenchantment of the Ordinary World
Rhoda Feng reviews Téa Obreht’s new novel “The Morningside.”
Get Transfigured
Amit Chaudhuri and James Wood discuss modernism, realism, and Chaudhuri’s three recently reissued novels.
Clouds of Knowledge with Their Ears Open
Ari Braverman interviews Claire Donato about “Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts.”
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