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This summer, we’re giving ourselves over—LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission is coming soon. With essays, fiction, and poetry from @talrosenberg, @koreanish, @emmelclein, and more, “Submission” parses the difference between giving in and giving up.
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“In many ways, love is a function of social history. Class, race, and nationality affect if and how two people can meet,” says Nishant Batsha with Torsa Ghosal on his new novel, “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart."
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The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission" presents "The Green" by Paula Bohince. Read here and get your issue today.
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"Future Perfect" by John James, from LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission. Get your issue today.
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"As in wrestling, the trumped-up spectacle of justice in today’s Washington is a stage-managed show of retribution and retaliation." James K. Chandler uses Barthes’s wrestling essay to examine reality and shared illusion in Trump’s Washington.
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"Worthen is less concerned about whether charisma is dangerous or salutary. It can be either," writes John G. Turner in his review of Mary Worthen’s “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump.”
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RT @Charley_Burlock: I’ve been working on this piece for four+ years. I’ve been wrestling with its themes for many more, and doubt I’ll eve….
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“I’m more interested in the interplay between character and space, and if the historical material doesn’t serve that, I am willing to leave it behind.” Torsa Ghosal speaks with Nishant Batsha about his new novel “A Bomb Placed Close.to the Heart.”
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"There is green, there is the green of childhood, the green missing, the one" . LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by Paula Bohince.
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"Spellbound is a wild and satisfying romp through the history of American religion and politics, and a simultaneously sober and hopeful appraisal of the present moment." John G. Turner reviews Molly Worthen’s “Spellbound.”
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@emmelclein @ocksportello @Charley_Burlock @Samuel_Rutter And this week, it's poetry week. First up, a poem from Farnoosh Fathi:
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@emmelclein @ocksportello @Charley_Burlock .@Samuel_Rutter interviews Abdulrazak Gurnah on colonial legacies and the direction of contemporary literature.
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@emmelclein @ocksportello .@Charley_Burlock interrogates the myths surrounding wildfires, grief, and California's supposed "gasoline trees."
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@emmelclein .@ocksportello considers state censorship and New Orleans rapper B.G. 's album "Freedom of Speech," in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 45: "Submission."
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.@emmelclein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: "Submission."
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Submission summer. LARB Quarterly: no. 45, Submission is here, with all new essays, short stories, and poetry on the power of giving in. A preview of the issue:
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Katie Kadue made her LARB debut with her essay on the life and legacy of Eve Babitz in What is LA?, one of our most beloved Quarterly issues ever. Learn the art of the review from @kukukadoo in her upcoming writing workshop, starting July 13.
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"Medicalization is a fancy term describes how crime, typically defined outside the realm of medicine, has been reinterpreted within its domain," writes Oliver Rollins in the ninth essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series.
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"This division between mind and body occurs within science fiction as warfare: the mind of Victor Frankenstein is at war with his monstrous bodily creation." Bernabé S. Mendoza considers Nnedi Okorafor's "Death of the Author."
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RT @brianhioe: Thanks to @sea_fan for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @LAReviewofBooks. I really appreci….
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