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Specific Solitudes: On Athena Dixon’s “The Loneliness Files”
Diana Ruzova reviews Athena Dixon’s “The Loneliness Files.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Body and Its Denizen: On Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking”
Emmeline Clein reviews Kate Manne’s “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”
Long Live Pope.L, the Friendliest Black Artist in America
Reflections from a former student of Pope.L on his artistic practice.
Inside My Dark Room
Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura.
Houellebecq’s Holy Folly: On Michel Houellebecq’s “Quelques mois dans ma vie”
Cory Stockwell reviews Michel Houellebecq’s “Quelques mois dans ma vie.”
Writing Blue
Terry Nguyen explores blue essays for LARB Quarterly, no. 40: “Water.”
Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer
A tribute to Palestinian writer and activist Refaat Alareer by poet and scholar Mosab Abu Toha.
The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
You’re Such a Character: The Knausgaard Behind Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell examines the public life of autofiction icon Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Keller
Kim Gordon relays the mythos surrounding her late brother in an excerpt from her upcoming book for LARB Quarterly, no. 40: “Water.”
The Callas Myth
Olivia Giovetti surveys memoirs about the opera diva Maria Callas, on the centenary of her birth.
A Feminist Chorus: On Clara Schulmann’s “Chicanes”
Edmée Lepercq reviews French author Clara Schulmann’s newly translated book-length essay “Chicanes."
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