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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.”
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
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.”
America Is Faustian
Gregory Laski interviews Ed Simon about “Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain.”
Russia’s Media-Ideological Complex
Michael David-Fox reviews Mikhail Suslov’s “Putinism—Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology.”
Refuge as a Way of Life
Michael McGhee reviews “Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge” by David E. Cooper.
Antisemitism Studies and the War Against the Imagination
Safa Khatib considers theories of Judaism, antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism in her review of “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism” by Jonathan Judaken.
Commendable Snitches
Gordon Marino considers “The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No” by Carl Elliott.
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