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Why (Re)translation Matters
Paul Reitter discusses the aesthetic and cultural value of “retranslating” classic texts.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.”
GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
In Bloom
Elena Megalos scrolls Instagram for images of a relationship that might have been, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
True Believer
Sadie Sartini Garner recalls a Nine Inch Nails concert from the year 2000 and wonders where those she stood shoulder to shoulder with have gone.
What Were These Women to Me?
Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill in a personal essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Worst Sect of People
Sheila McClear reviews “Men Have Called Her Crazy,” a supposed tell-all memoir by Anna Marie Tendler.
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