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Temporary Community
Sesshu Foster reports from a mutual aid center in the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
That’s Nature for You
Annie Berke reviews Jenny Slate’s new motherhood meditation, “Lifeform.”
My Machine and Me
Greta Rainbow chronicles her year though Glance Back, a net art piece coded by Maya Man.
Politics of the Blinding Light
Ximena Prieto reviews Vanessa Holyoak’s “I See More Clearly in the Dark.”
La Belle Epoch
Arielle Gordon traces the rise of “The Epoch Times” through her grandmother’s text messages.
Bedrock
In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Charley Burlock navigates gravesites, literal and figurative.
Decimated, Then Reassembled on Arrival: Lore Segal’s Legacy
Na’amit Sturm Nagel pays tribute to the late Lore Segal, a novelist who wrote autobiographically.
From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square
Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”
A Chemical Window to See Outside
Julia Case-Levine reviews Emily Witt’s “Health and Safety: A Breakdown.”
Itineraries of Affect
Erdağ Göknar reviews Orhan Pamuk’s “Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022.”
How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?
Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of “etceterization.”
Tropical Malaise
Rafaela Bassili reviews Stephen G. Bloom’s “The Brazil Chronicles.”
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