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The Novella in the Age of Being Performatively Offline
Ryan Lackey considers Damion Searls’s take on the vertiginous effects of digital life in “Analog Days.”
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Are You There God? It’s Me, Natasha Stagg
Tess Pollok interviews Natasha Stagg about her new novel “Grand Rapids.”
The Knight of the Railways
Eric Vanderwall takes a ride with French author Mattia Filice’s debut novel “Driver,” newly translated by Jacques Houis.
Macchiato
A. Cerisse Cohen writes about desire in your twenties, in a short story throwback from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Dogs of the Solar Steppe
Ari Braverman writes about a woman exiled to the countryside, in a short story from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Good Night and Good Luck
Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket.”
Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
From “To the Madhouse: A Novel”
Robert Rubsam offers a portrait of the artist as a lonely man, in an excerpt featured in the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”
Perfect, or Whatever
Paul Thompson speaks with Mike Powell about his debut novel, “New Paltz, New Paltz.”
Testing the Soundness
Justin St. Clair revisits some classics in Jonathan Lethem’s “A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories.”
Realism Scrapes Through
Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”
God and Sex and Money
Tierney Finster interviews Maya Martinez about her debut book, “Theatrics: Collected Theatrical Writings.”
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