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The Weight of Estrangement
Grace Linden reviews Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Everyone’s from Somewhere
Matthew Ritchie reviews “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib.
Arizona! You Won’t Believe It!
Michael Downs reviews Richard Grant’s “A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona.”
More than Human
Erika Howsare reviews Kapka Kassabova’s “Anima: A Wild Pastoral.”
John E. Mack and the Unbelievable UFO Truth
Michael J. Socolow looks back at the controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.
Tastes Like Home
Yangyang Cheng reviews Michelle T. King’s “Chop Fry Watch Learn” and Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
Why (Re)translation Matters
Paul Reitter discusses the aesthetic and cultural value of “retranslating” classic texts.
There’s No Surviving Without Hope
Nicole Graev Lipson interviews Jerald Walker about his new essay collection, “Magically Black.”
Scored in the Key of Leisure
LARB presents an excerpt from Dorothy’s upcoming reissue of Renee Gladman’s “To After That (TOAF).”
A Precarious, Provisional Order
Claire Foster reviews Daniel Saldaña París’s “Planes Flying over a Monster,” newly translated by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman.
Talk
Kristen Radtke defends Linda Rosenkrantz’s underappreciated classic novel “Talk,” in a comic from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Notes on Disappearing: A Life in Fragments
Veronica Gonzalez Peña explores fragmented memories of a childhood, in light of the 2014 murder of 43 Mexican students, in a story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
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