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Endgame Emotions: The Melting of Time, the Mourning of the World
Mikkel Krause Frantzen explores emotions at the end.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The IIC School Versus the JLF School of Indian English
Sumana Roy on how the vernacularization of the English language has affected Indian political and cultural life.
School Spirit: Debts and Gifts from Wallace and Lethem
Colin Flynn remembers learning from David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Lethem.
Annals of an Alternate World: On John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa”
Noah Rawlings reviews John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa.”
Puzzles to Be Solved: A Conversation with Myriam Gurba
Daniel Olivas talks with Myriam Gurba about her new book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions.”
Against the MFA Contrarians
Joel Cuthbertson defends the creative writing MFA as an educational, not a vocational, enterprise.
Adrift in Mythic Country: On Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River”
Craig Childs reviews Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona.”
Get Lost: On Daniel Asa Rose’s “Truth or Consequences”
Julie Morrison reviews Daniel Asa Rose’s “Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert.”
Away Upstream Again: On Mark Wormald’s “The Catch”
Katherine Robinson reviews Mark Wormald’s “The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes.”
Artaud’s Final Testaments: On Three Recent Books from Infinity Land Press
Jay Murphy reviews three recent books of (and about) the late writings of Antonin Artaud.
Sharing Speech: On Translation as Conversation
Robin Myers writes about her experience of migrating to Mexico City and coming to translate Spanish poetry.
The Battle for Love
In a preview of “LARB Quarterly” no. 38: “Earth,” Camila Fabbri considers what forever means, as translated by Robin Myers.
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