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Lauren Goldenberg savors “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light” by Caroline Eden.
The closure of a Guatemalan anti-corruption office makes their government look bad, and the United States even worse.
On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle,” a look at a lesbian haunted house art project as well as the anti-trans clouds that haunt stereotypes about lesbian identity.
Joseph Giovannini explores the newly redesigned MoMA in New York City.
Skye C. Cleary reviews Kate Kirkpatrick's new biography of Simone de Beauvoir, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life."
Megan Race admires “Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master” by Nadine Meisner.
Paul Morton reviews "Cons De Fée: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood," out now from Fantagraphics.
JB Brager reviews “SFSX,” written and drawn by Tina Horn and Michael Dowling.
Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Rachel Monroe’s “Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession.”
How three “garage philosophers” fought off a divine invasion in early 1970s California.
For Dear Television, Sarah Mesle talks rough puffs, proving drawers, self-saucing puddings, and The Great British Bake Off in the age of Brexit.
Dear Television's Sarah Mesle considers Emily Nussbaum as a feminist critic and a chronicler of the televisual cult of seriousness.
A special issue of “New Centennial Review” tackles the metastases of finance capitalism.
Chang-Min Yu reviews Joseph Jonghyun Jeon’s volume on Korean cinema and its rendering of global economic logics through film language and narrative.
Morgan G. Ames on the problem of letting Silicon Valley tech elites guide conversations on child development and schooling.
Fran Bigman discusses Brit Bennett’s “The Mothers” and the stories we tell about abortion.
Annie McGreevy on “Hustlers,” Edward P. Jones’s “The Known World,” a failed TV project, and the hustles that sustain us under capitalism.
Chloe Lizotte considers the Manson depictions from the summer of 2019, asking what contradictions of representation and historical memory they share.
Annie McGreevy on “Hustlers,” Edward P. Jones’s “The Known World,” a failed TV project, and the hustles that sustain us under capitalism.
A best-selling cookbook author discusses the problems with fad diets and the importance of eating well.
John T. Scott samples “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland” by Clay Risen.
Chloe Lizotte considers the Manson depictions from the summer of 2019, asking what contradictions of representation and historical memory they share.
On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle,” a look at a lesbian haunted house art project as well as the anti-trans clouds that haunt stereotypes about lesbian identity.
Brad Evans speaks with Roy Scranton, whose latest books are “Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature” and “I Heart Oklahoma!”
Brad Evans speaks with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, co-editor, with Slavoj Žižek, of “The Idea of Communism 3: The Seoul Conference.”
Richard Lourie takes on “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin” by Douglas Smith.
Randy Rosenthal delves into Russia culture, from borscht to the banya, with Sara Wheeler and Ethan Pollock.
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK This week’s show is the first of several to feature interviews conducted at
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Sports historian Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff uncovers an archival mystery about France, China, basketball, and a forgotten attempt at Cold War diplomacy.
A new biography of the dean of American baseball writing.
This piece appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Imitation, No. 23 To receive the Quarterly
This piece appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Imitation, No. 23 To receive the Quarterly
“A world without darkness is unthinkable.” Hiromi Kawakami's short story "Grapes" will appear in LARB's print Quarterly Journal, No. 23: Imitation.
Photo Credit: Mark Lamonica) Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show we talk with Deanne Stillman
Intellectual property lawyer Dale E. Nelson reviews "A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects," edited by Claudy Op den Kamp and Dan Hunter.
Don Franzen reviews Edward Watts's "Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny."
A special issue of “New Centennial Review” tackles the metastases of finance capitalism.
On the limits of archetype and power of self-mythology in “March Sisters.”
In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence.
A visit to the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali.
Eisa Nefertari Ulen reviews Shonda Buchanan's new memoir, "Black Indian."
Randy Rosenthal delves into Russia culture, from borscht to the banya, with Sara Wheeler and Ethan Pollock.
LARB presents the October installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
In this monthly series, Scott Timberg interviews musicians on the literary work that has inspired and informed their music.
Désirée Zamorano asks Michael Nava about “Carved in Bone,” his latest mystery novel starring openly gay, Mexican-American defense attorney Henry Rios.
Ivy Pochoda interviews Alex Segura about “Miami Midnight” and the entire Pete Fernandez PI series.
Jay Neugeboren recounts his time as an American antiwar activist in the 1960s and contemplates his current standing as an activist in modern-day America.
A major European philosopher diagnoses the pathologies of our time.
Joseph S. O’Leary considers James W. Heisig's new book, "Of Gods and Minds."
Will Brewbaker wades into “The River Twice” by Kathleen Graber.
Lois P. Jones speaks to poet David Whyte, whose latest collection is “The Bell and the Blackbird.”
The closure of a Guatemalan anti-corruption office makes their government look bad, and the United States even worse.
Richard Lourie takes on “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin” by Douglas Smith.
Ebrahim Moosa reviews Jack Miles's "God in the Qur’an."
Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”
“‘How Humans Learn’ is a splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college.” Ryan Boyd reviews Joshua R. Eyler’s new book.
A dazzling new history of the Arctic region between the United States and Russia is leavened with sharp prose and well-informed insights.
Travis Rieder’s “In Pain” provides us with a bioethics that is not passively analytical, but peacefully agitative.
A special issue of “New Centennial Review” tackles the metastases of finance capitalism.
Cixin Liu’s “Supernova Era” offers a tantalizing glimpse into another universe where parents won’t simply let their children die without a fight.
"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus.
Philosophy and the "intellectual game": Kieran Setiya interviews Alva Noë about his book, "Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark."
Chloe Lizotte considers the Manson depictions from the summer of 2019, asking what contradictions of representation and historical memory they share.
Jorge Cotte explores the queasy, wobbly, ethically ambiguous experience of being close to the billionaire children of HBO's "Succession."
A queer Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx has a summer fling in Gabby Rivera’s “Juliet Takes a Breath.”
Emily Hodgson Anderson on the promises and perils of reading aloud.