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Criticism as Apologetics
Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu about her new book, “Authority.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.”
As You Write It
Nicole Graev Lipson about her debut collection, “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays.”
The Man Who Knew the Price
Spencer Weinreich examines the late Alexei Navalny’s memoir “Patriot.”
The Syrup of Wahoo Keeps Splashing Around
Gary Lippman remembers his friend, the late American author Tom Robbins.
A Body Is Never Just a Body
Jenessa Abrams considers Shayne Terry’s “Leave: A Postpartum Account.”
The Liquid Music of Language
Charlotte Rogers has some concerns about Julie Sedivy’s “Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love.”
The Airport of Human Experience
Meghan Racklin interviews Haley Mlotek about her new memoir “No Fault.”
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