Life After Noir: A Conversation with Duke Haney
David Breithaupt debriefs Duke Haney, author of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland.”...
Freddie Outside the Bronx: Frederic Tuten’s “My Young Life”
Reading Frederic Tuten's "My Young Life," you’re aware of just how easily this might have been a dilettante’s memoir....
The Feeling of Heart: A Conversation with Frederic Tuten
Carrie Cooperider talks to Frederic Tuten about his memoir, “My Young Life.”...
A Fine Green Thread
A new collection of essays by and about Irish-American writers in New York....
When Speaking Is Not Enough: On Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Shout”
A new verse memoir about sexual abuse uses poetry to indict and heal....
Making It by Faking It
A new memoir about a youthful career as a fake classical violinist....
Poppy/Friend
This piece appears in the upcoming issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Print Quarterly Journal: The Epistolary Issue, No. 21 To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, become a member or purchase at your ...
The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On “k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher”
"k-punk" is a primer in how to write cultural criticism today. If it is a catastrophe that we no longer have Mark Fisher, we at least have this collection....
Holocaust Remembrance: Primo Levi’s Work
In confronting Primo Levi's writing, in allowing ourselves to be drawn into the horror, we face not the evil that Levi faced, but rather ourselves....
The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing
Emily LaBarge reviews Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias.”...
The Enduring Appeal of Cancer Lit
Two new cancer memoirs expand a growing canon....
Not Just Russians, Not Just Jews: On New Works by Irina Reyn, Boris Fishman, and David Bezmozgis
On “Mother Country” by Irina Reyn, “Savage Feast” by Boris Fishman, and “Immigrant City” by David Bezmozgis....
