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What Would Becky Buy?
Tom Zoellner considers Leah Payne’s “God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music.”
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
From Woke to Solidarity
Michael S. Roth reviews Musa al-Gharbi’s “We Have Never Been Woke” and James Davison Hunter’s “Democracy and Solidarity.”
A Place, Not a Refuge
Katie Peterson reviews “What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt,” translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill.
The Gospel According to Jordan
Michael Ledger-Lomas reviews Jordan Peterson’s “We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine.”
Philosophical Dead Ends
John Dupré reviews Richard Dawkins’s “The Genetic Book of the Dead” and Sara Imari Walker’s “Life as No One Knows It.”
Play and the Engine of Creation
Julien Crockett interviews Kelly Clancy about gamification, simulations, and her new book “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”
Tales Wagging Translators
Bruce Krajewski reviews Damion Searls’s “The Philosophy of Translation.”
The Invention of Tolerance
Jeffrey Collins reviews Jed W. Atkins’s “The Christian Origins of Tolerance.”
Archive Fever: Los Angeles Review of Books’ Post-Election Roundup
In light of the election, LARB editors present a selection of archival pieces that reveal what we know (and do not) about ourselves as a nation.
I Refuse to Read Novels with a Passport in My Head
Robert Pogue Harrison interviews Kamel Daoud about his 2015 novel, “The Meursault Investigation,” translated by John Cullen.
A Pink Wilderness of Sod and Infrastructure
Katherine Gibbel reviews Lindsey Webb’s “Plat.”
Can Opera Be Reborn?
Peter Kazaras reviews Yuval Sharon’s “A New Philosophy of Opera.”
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