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Double Vision and Full Dissolution
Alix Christie interviews Andrea Barrett about “Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction.”
Literary Criticism
"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette
The Liquid Music of Language
Charlotte Rogers has some concerns about Julie Sedivy’s “Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love.”
Mirage Factory: Aimee Semple McPherson and 1920s L.A.
In a new installment of an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and the significance of the year 1925.
The Rise of Psychopower
Ian Ellison reviews Cate I. Reilly’s “Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State.”
Looking Back at 1925
In this first of 12 monthly articles, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on the significance of the year 1925.
Falling in Love with Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson scholar Trenton B. Olsen reviews “A Wilder Shore” by Camille Peri.
A World Literature Begins to Take Shape
Mitchell Abidor reviews Edwin Frank’s “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.”
Tales Wagging Translators
Bruce Krajewski reviews Damion Searls’s “The Philosophy of Translation.”
How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?
Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of “etceterization.”
I Like the Coldness
Madeleine Connors interviews Lili Anolik about her new book, “Didion & Babitz.”
Fitful Glimpses and Spurts
Katie Kadue reviews Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz.”
Epitaph for the American Idea
Eric Weiskott reviews Elizabeth Willis’s “Liontaming in America.”
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