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GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
Infinite, Fragmented Anguishes
Tess Pollok interviews Aria Dean about her collection “Bad Infinity,” Afropessimism, police brutality, and Black radical thought, on the one-year anniversary of the book’s release.
TrimSpa, Baby
Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
May the Best Story Win
Zoe Mendelson tells herself gossip in order to live in an online-only exclusive from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42.
That Is the Saddest Story I’ve Ever Heard
Vivian Medithi interviews Lauren Cook about his new collection, “Sex Goblin.”
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire?
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
The All-Too-Human Flesh of It
A look at the South’s racial bias is not completely free of bias itself, says Bill Thompson, reviewing Pete Candler’s “A Deeper South.”
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