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Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
Literary Criticism
"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette
The Useless Prophet
Anthony Curtis Adler considers the new translation of Walter Benjamin’s “On Goethe” from Stanford University Press.
On Translation Fiction and the Comfort of Monolingualism
Marie Lambert analyzes recent works of fiction that feature translators as protagonists, and the questions they raise about cross-cultural communication in a heterogeneous world.
A Higher Thing than History
Zach Gibson reviews Hayden White’s second volume of “The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory.”
Never a Patient Woman
Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Andrew Koenig considers Elisha Cohn’s “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel.”
The Fine Art of Bad Writing
Dan Sinykin interviews Tom Comitta about their latest project, “People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels.”
Savage Meritocracies
Alix Ohlin revisits Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go” on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
Modernity’s Slumber Factory
Ian Ellison considers Sebastian P. Klinger’s “Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929.”
The Isaiah of the Butterflies
In this new installment of an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on the “King of the Greenwich Village Bohemians,” Maxwell Bodenheim, and the significance of the year 1925.
More and Scarier Monsters, Always
Vanessa Evans reviews the new critical anthology “Global Indigenous Horror,” edited by Naomi Simone Borwein.
Significant World
Valerie Duff-Strautmann reviews Srikanth Reddy’s “The Unsignificant.”
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