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Perfect Momentum
In a preview from LARB Quarterly no. 44, “Pressure,” Dorie Chevlen learns how to crash someone else’s car.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
From Plague to Palate
B. K. Fischer reviews Maggie Nelson’s “Pathemata, or The Story of My Mouth.”
Building a Nest
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
What Bad Art Lacks
Chris Molnar interviews Naomi Falk about her new book, “The Surrender of Man.”
How Can Everything Hit Different?
Somebody is lying.
Player One and Main Character
Gideon Jacobs considers what Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as odd couple in chief, have in common.
Criticism as Apologetics
Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu about her new book, “Authority.”
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins
Simon Wu writes on “Mario Kart” and fiction in Las Vegas in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Basic Stuff About Reality
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”
Preparing for the Plunge
David Amsden returns to John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” while cruising Los Angeles’s rentable swimming pools.
Brimming with Pathos
Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”
All My Small Things
Josh Billings reviews Helen Garner’s “How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998.”
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