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In LARB Quarterly, no. 41: “Truth,” Sarah Yanni grapples with her truths. “On a sleepy November Saturday morning, I ended my seven-and-a-half-year relationship as the words casually fell out of my mouth: ‘I think I’m gay.’”
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Ron Rosenbaum, world-class expert on the rise of Hitler, refused to write about Trump for months. Until now:
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"One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice." —Ursula K. Le Guin.
Thank you for sharing your imagination with us.
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Ron Rosenbaum, world-class expert on the rise of Hitler, refused to write about Trump for months. Until now:
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Monitoring the feud between Charli XCX Updates and the politics editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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From Octavia Butler's journals: her list of what is "sexy," via
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“One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
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"One is left feeling compassion for a generation that feels doomed, that is waking up to its identity only to have it recede before their very eyes at the moment of their awakening."
@grossloh
on "Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink" by Jeff Wasserstrom:
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“At its core, ‘Hades’ is a story about the particular cruelties only those closest to you can inflict.” Vivian Lam explores how
@SupergiantGames
’s “Hades” turns Greek myth into a subversive allegory of resistance.
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Ron Rosenbaum, world-class expert on the rise of Hitler, refused to write about Trump for months. Until now:
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ODD BIRDS is a “delightful short memoir” by
@IANMHARDING
, an unfussy meditation on acting and birding:
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"Orphan Black is a feminist show." Cosima Herter, the show's science and story consultant:
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"Whether or not an explicit agreement existed between the Russians and Trump himself, we can broadly call Trump’s public response to Russia’s election interventions collusive.”
@SethAbramson
discusses his book “Proof of Collusion” with Andy Fitch:
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@LanaDelRey
We know you're a fan of "Lolita." And we're big fan of your "Lolita." Check out our new interview series:
http://t.co/57fqmPCxUS
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Celebrating John Berger (1926-2017) and his legacy. Our piece today becomes a fitting tribute:
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"Palestinians are not on this earth to atone for the centuries-long unspeakable crimes against the Jewish people in the West."
@FadyJoudah
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@rgay
: "I am not avoiding reality when I read fiction; I am strengthening my ability to cope with reality.”
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"If men gave birth, the question of whether or not to have children would have been the central question of philosophy from the beginning of time." Sheila Heti in conversation:
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Prior to his kidnapping by Israeli forces, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha shared a poem with us in which he wrote, “If you live in Gaza, / you die several times.” Relieved for his release yesterday morning, we share the poem, “Gaza Notebook (2021-2023).”
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"I believe America needed Barack Obama at the exact moment he was elected."
@danpfeiffer
reflects on the Obama era:
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"People just want to be left alone and McDonald’s, by and large, leaves people alone." –
@Chris_arnade
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"'Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity' is proof that the future of Classics is already here. It’s simply waiting for everyone else to catch up."
@senscommunrare
reviews Sarah Derbew.
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Biden got the most votes in US history; he’s the only Democrat in our lifetimes to get above 50%, except for Obama. John Nichols argues that we had a "close" election only because of the Electoral College.
@NicholsUprising
on
@thenation
podcast
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Slavoj Žižek on 'Blade Runner 2049': "A View of Post-Human Capitalism," for
@Philosoph_Salon
:
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"All the leaders in my county are registered Democrats. But almost all of us voted for Trump." An Appalachian's POV:
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In a very Kirsten Dunst/Jesse Plemons Oscar nominee couple moment, previous LA RB EIC Boris Dralyuk and his wife/esteemed author and translator Jennifer Croft are both 2022 finalists for the
@bookcritics
Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations, Boris and Jenny!
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On the brilliant pastiche of Frank Herbert's DUNE:
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From Octavia Butler's journals: her list of what is "sexy," via
@clockshopla
's amazing archival project:
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"Seidel has effectively exposed and unreservedly debunked the myth that America was founded as a Christian (or later Judeo-Christian) nation." Stephen Rohde on "The Founding Myth" (
@SterlingBooks
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“One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin:
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When Reality Was a Joke | The Making of Albert Brooks's Real Life
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Contributor
@briallenhopper
, with the help of four close friends, examines
@RealJohnGreen
's The Fault in Our Stars.
http://t.co/UJCaw3ATZI
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“We need to think through this post-truth culture I describe as making decisions based less on fact, data, and evidence, and more on emotion, preference, feeling, grievance, tribe.” General Michael Hayden in conversation:
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In 2020, The NY Times called her “the most successful independent journalist in America, more or less by accident”– author
@HC_Richardson
on writing "Democracy Awakening" – on
@thenation
podcast w/
@JonWiener1
@VikingBooks
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The deafening silence around Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is at the heart of how liberalism views free speech:
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“I have a lot of resentment toward the Democratic Party.”
@liz_franczak
of the
@TrueAnonPod
:
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Though he died in 1987, James Baldwin might be the real American hero we need right now. Here's why:
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Four Palestinian poets write in a time of catastrophe.
@mapofmyself
,
@LKTuffaha
, Jessica Abughattas, and
@DeemaShehabi
share poems in conversation with the work of people across Palestine and the diaspora.
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“Genocide enabled the complete fulfillment of the policy of ethnic domination through expropriation.”
@ArisJanigian
speaks with Ümit Kurt about his book “The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province.”
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ON THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY: Edward Gorey was born, 1925
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"'Shortest Way Home' is more than just a stump speech with a dust jacket. It’s a vivid and surprisingly lyrical portrait of a city and a man in transition." Harrison Hill on Pete Buttigieg's new memoir:
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Check back on BLARB tomorrow morning for an interview with
@SethAbramson
about his book "Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America."
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"It would go to authors and journalists and newsrooms and people, writing stories to capture what happened during the pandemic, from all walks of life in America."
@DonFranzan
speaks with
@RepTedLieu
about the 21st Century Federal Writers' Project Act.
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An open letter from queer studies scholars:
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"You could read Ono’s career as a long thesis on exposure and concealment. Now you see her, now you don’t; now she’s silent, now she’s screaming.”
@austinwriting
revisits Yoko Ono's poetry.
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"A recently released 1985 document reveals that CIA operatives had been studying Foucault, Lacan and Barthes.":
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How Henry Kissinger, along with Richard Nixon, created a world of perpetual war.
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“One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
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"For John Berger, art criticism is a revolutionary practice. It prepares the ground for a new society"—
@SolemnPhiz
:
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"From the day India became independent from British rule, August 1947, there has not been a single day when the Indian Army has not been deployed within its own borders against quote unquote its own people." Arundhati Roy:
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"Hitler's tactic of playing the fool, the Chaplinesque clown, worked over and over. The West underestimated him.":
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Happy 90th Birthday Harry Belafonte! thanks for a lifetime of activism
@JoanWalsh
@TheNation
podcast coprod. by LARB
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"Rock and roll’s founding figures were African American, yet 'rock' as we know and hear it now is coded white."
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Nazi lawyers studied US immigration law as models for their race-based laws and policies:
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“Yes. For those of us whose histories have been written over by strangers, we have to learn again.”
@AdhiamboKE
and
@bhakti_shringa
talk the history and writing of East Africa.
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"Given the longevity and recent expansion of the hallyu — signified by the crossover success of pop band BTS and Bong’s 2019 Best Picture Oscar for 'Parasite' — it’s surprising how little attention manhwa still receives, especially in print." DW McKinney:
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"And if the fantasy of 'High Fantasy' is always that absolute rulers might rule well and kindly and with good intentions for their people, then Game of Thrones has abruptly woken up and remembered what a queen is."
@zunguzungu
on
#GameofThrones
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You won't find a paywall on our site! We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and we offer all of our online content for free. We'd love your support to help us bring you new essays, interviews, reviews, & literary curation.
#supportLARB
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@clockshopla
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@NifMuhammad
's advice for getting through 2018 and beyond: "Go outside, turn off the news, drink more water."
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🎂 This year, we're celebrating our 10th birthday; this weekend, we launched our new website! We hope you enjoy. 🎂
#10YearsOfLARB
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"If you are trapped in the dream of the other, you are fucked." —Gilles Deleuze
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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” —Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury!
http://t.co/hdxFH5RXsd
http://t.co/2niyhfsW0C
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Ron Rosenbaum, world-class expert on the rise of Hitler, refused to write about Trump for months. Until now:
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We're thrilled to announce Samuel Rutter as our new International Literature editor. Previously the deputy editor of Astra Magazine, his work can be found in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Dirt, and other publications. Welcome,
@Samuel_Rutter
!
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Leonard Cohen (Montreal, 1934 - Los Angeles, 2016). Gentleman and poet.
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"For more than a century, Clark Ashton Smith has been unfairly disregarded as a poet, a short story writer, a painter, and even a sculptor." Scott Bradfield writes:
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Perhaps the most audacious argument in David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" is that modern corporations are not just similar to feudalism — they are basically the same thing.
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"Hitler knew how to seize upon the shame of Versailles and exploit a populace eager to 'make Germany great again'."
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"People in the dominant group can rest in their mediocrity. That’s the privilege of privilege: being mediocre without being deported."
@viet_t_nguyen
in conversation with
@christibuckley
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"The more important point here is that believing techie parents have secret insider knowledge about the harmful effects of children’s technology usage reinforces the dangerous myth that techies are always the smartest people in the room."
@morgangames
:
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Contemporary fantasy has a "habit of Whiteness."
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"Anti-cultural purification" | How secularization brought about the rise in fundamentalism
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"Instead of explorers and imperial mandarins, Stern invites us to see empire as the product of investors, entrepreneurs, scamsters, hucksters, and an army of lawyers and publicists."
@DinyarPatel
reviews Philip J. Stern’s “Empire, Incorporated."
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"This is the best kind of romantic tale: innocent and unfussy, yet overwhelming."
@Cummingstime
reviews BLOOM by
@kevinpanetta
and
@Srganuch
:
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"Wizards and Hasbro may own the official lore, but actual plays and other creators have proved they have tales worth telling – both in terms of the stories of their tables, and the narratives of their own making,"
@friede
writes.
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“'What is hidden from view,' he asks, 'or rather, what provisions have we made to shelter our minds from that which is too terrifying to confront?'” Jarrod Shanahan reviews Travis Linneman’s "The Horror of Police."
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The
#1
movie in the world right now is "Barbie" – over $1 billion in ticket sales – and it's probably the most explicitly feminist movie ever made –
@KathaPollitt
– our most explicitly feminist writer – comments on
@thenation
podcast w/
@JonWiener1
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The difference between forms of storytelling may not be as wide as people think.
@mat_johnson
in conversation with
@alexdueben
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Is "the French intellectual" a casualty of the 21st Century? An essay by Robert Zaretsky:
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"After Black Panther, Miles Morales, the new in-continuity Afro-Latinx Spider-Man, is the most impactful Black superhero on both page and screen this decade." Vincent Haddad writes:
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We’re very pleased to announce Medaya Ocher as our next Editor-in-Chief!
No stranger to LARB, Medaya served as our Managing Editor and Senior Editor from 2014–2021, and is a current host of the LARB Radio Hour. We’re thrilled to welcome Medaya back to direct LARB’s vision.
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“Though I was really shy, I found myself far more able to speak up when I was in the booth, talking on air.” Polygon’s
@LegsFrank
talks to
@PodcastReview_
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"To many people here, Obama took our jobs and left us cheap cell phones." A Trump Voter speaks:
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Happy 90th Birthday Harry Belafonte! thanks for a lifetime of activism
@JoanWalsh
@TheNation
podcast coprod. by LARB
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spring has sprung. the LARB Quarterly No. 33 is finally here, featuring essays by
@anthonyocampo
and
@emrata
, silhouettes of those Californian literary It Girls Joan and Eve, and much more, all inspecting that one elusive question — what is L.A.?
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Under Hitler, hyperbole replaced reason, feeling substituted for analysis, emotion saturated popular consciousness.
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Unlike countless articles and books delicately attempting to make sense of the Arab Spring, "Revolution for Dummies" stays true to its title. Orly Minazad writes:
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"'The Bright Ages' has good news for us. The world can be beautiful without centralized and brutal imperial power. We just ignore that history for our own reasons."
@GoingMedieval
reviews Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry's new book on the Middle Ages.
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Like Trump, Hitler was obsessed with the way the independent press portrayed him. So he destroyed it:
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On this week's
#LARBRadioHour
, philosopher Kohei Saito (
@koheisaito0131
) speaks to
@EHNewman
and Kate Wolf about his book "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto."
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City Lights prioritizes titles from small, independent publishers and university presses, and displays the work of local self-published authors and zines on consignment.
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Repression of poor whites by the slaveholding elite is a hidden history that needs telling.
@notstevenwhite
writes:
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