O Jerusalem, If I Should Forget You
A trip through Israel reveals the siege mentality — and the paradoxical openness — that has been with the modern Jewish state from the beginning.
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
A trip through Israel reveals the siege mentality — and the paradoxical openness — that has been with the modern Jewish state from the beginning.
Charles DunstApr 12, 2020
LARB presents an excerpt from Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee,” an Object Lesson out this month from Bloomsbury.
Dinah LenneyApr 12, 2020
A Hungarian scholar of Russian literature looks back on her experience in quarantine under Soviet rule.
Zsuzsa HetényiApr 10, 2020
Will Boast roams through Nicola Gardini’s “Long Live Latin,” translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz.
Will BoastMar 10, 2020
Michele Asselin presents her photographs of Hollywood Park Racetrack in its final days.
Michele AsselinMar 9, 2020
Andrei CodrescuMar 2, 2020
Sam Moore on queerness and finding oneself, with detours through contemporary queer film, literature, and music.
Sam MooreFeb 29, 2020
Lisa C. Hickman reconstructs William Faulkner’s tumultuous Hollywood sojourn of 1932–1936.
Lisa C. HickmanFeb 27, 2020
Erin Khar discusses her memoir about recovering from addiction, “Strung Out.”
Jane RatcliffeFeb 25, 2020
Ashon T. Crawely on "forgiveness, in black"
Ashon T. CrawleyFeb 25, 2020
Angela Woodward considers how hunting mushrooms can illuminate Daša Drndić’s fiction.
Angela WoodwardFeb 23, 2020
Erica Wright interviews Kenneth R. Rosen about his book "Bulletproof Vest," a new book in the Object Lessons series.
Erica WrightFeb 16, 2020