:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405MA_I121086_TePapa_Still-life-Selfportrait_full-min-scaled.jpg)
A Novelist with a Fury: Reading Arundhati Roy in the Present
Yogita Goyal explores Arundhati Roy’s wide-ranging nonfiction and unflinching political activism.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
United in Torment: On Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom”
Emmeline Clein reviews Fine Gråbøl’s “What Kingdom.”
A City of Tongues and Muscle: On Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto’s “Maya Nagari” Anthology
Uttaran Das Gupta reviews Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto's anthology “Maya Nagari: Bombay-Mumbai, A City in Stories.”
Choose the Opposite: A Conversation with Linda D. Addison
Matthew Sorrento interviews poet and speculative fiction writer Linda D. Addison.
Aunt Jelena
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Ena Selimović translates Marina Gudelj’s short story … or is it a eulogy?
The Fiction of Rational Miracles: On Amit Chaudhuri’s NYRB Classics Reissues
Saikat Majumdar reviews NYRB Classics’ rerelease of Amit Chaudhuri’s first three books.
Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July’s “All Fours”
Jenessa Abrams reviews Miranda July’s “All Fours.”
As the Strands Come Together, Patterns Arise: A Conversation with Carolyn Kuebler
Ladette Randolph interviews Carolyn Kuebler about the relationship between writing and editing and her debut novel, “Liquid, Fragile, Perishable.”
Learning Uncertainty: On Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris”
Madeleine Crum reviews Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories.”
Scars Prove You Lived: On Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake”
Justin Wigard reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake.”
Invented Jewish Folktales
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Sam Sax presents lore so uncanny, it might as well be real.
True Fictionalizations: On Angie Sijun Lou’s “Dark Soil” Anthology
David Lewis reviews the new anthology “Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies,” edited by Angie Sijun Lou.
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405what-kingdom.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405Maya-Nagari-1.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405head.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202404LARB41_D1_v2_Cover-scaled.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405A-Strange-and-Sublime-Address-Freedom-Song-Afternoon-Raag-scaled.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405All-Fours.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405Liquid-Fragile-Perishable-1.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202404Swimming-in-Paris.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405Angel-of-Indian-Lake-1.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405dark-soil.jpg)