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A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. Find us on Bluesky.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2010
We're over the moon to announce that the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien is officially coming soon, featuring meditations, essays, fiction, poetry, and more from LARB contributors new and known. Prep for landing and join today to get your issue. https://t.co/XCeAALcNbR
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“Kosky never brandishes his learning for its own sake but puts it to work in an inviting manner, even when he is exploring the physiology of the heart or the history of open-heart surgery.” John Lysaker considers Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart.”
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John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”
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"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." @maryturfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://t.co/unkeM89WM6
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"The story of abortion has always been about politics, not science, which in the U.S. has repeatedly tried to impede access to abortion pills." Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Keliher about her new book "Just Pills." https://t.co/Cl97vZ4P9x
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"The trajectory of intelligent life on this planet can be described as an evolution of its verbs: to move, to reproduce, to use, to think." Patrick House writes about what might constitute the difference between artificial and natural intelligence. https://t.co/tMdkDm6lGb
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Why are Greek movies so strange? It turns out they've been "weird" for a while, and not for the reasons you might think. My latest essay for the @LAReviewofBooks.
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Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.
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I reviewed Craig Thompson's brilliant new book, Ginseng Roots, online today in the @LAReviewofBooks
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“‘Red Sword’ achieves its most profound effects not through elaborate world-building but through careful architecture.” Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword,” newly translated by Anton Hur.
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Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword,” newly translated by Anton Hur.
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John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”: “Kosky engages a remarkable range of texts and images in an extended, learned, and deeply personal meditation.” https://t.co/pChVw63Du4
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“Schuster unlocks Kafka’s story through playfully Freudian readings, sharp and often surprising.” Isabel Jacobs writes in her review of Aaron Schuster’s "How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science."
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Isabel Jacobs considers Aaron Schuster’s “How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science.”
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Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword”: “Chung’s ability to insert the emotional register of popular activism into a narrative adopted from a traditional military chronicle might surprise readers.” https://t.co/G2fjhumBzJ
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"From Guangdong to Green Bay, how and why people work are less different than it might initially seem." @dolanmart_in reviews Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.” https://t.co/DBA2OW3Ecr
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In her featured story for LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien, Ari Braverman captures exile and taut relationships of the domestic world: "She was her Mother’s creature, all the way through." https://t.co/Mf6xEcK5B2
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“Kafka’s picaresque story is built on the premise that dogs cannot see humans—their food is delivered by invisible hands.” Isabel Jacobs considers Aaron Schuster’s "How to Research Like a Dog." https://t.co/kGEuMdxjW7
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"Wood’s extreme and sometimes touching ineptitude could produce cinematic sequences that are compelling in their unforeseen oddness." Oliver Evans reviews Will Sloan’s new biography, "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA." https://t.co/qLfCADZ0vi
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Oliver Evans reviews Will Sloan’s new biography “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.”
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How do we begin to combat the war against the humanities? Sanchez Prado insists that developing a universal and popular understanding of just what the humanities are is key, and professors are on the front lines.
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“The war on the humanities and the war on DEI are the same project,” Sanchez Prado writes, drawing attention to the potential of certain humanities subsets to make disenfranchised students feel like their cultures are worthy of study and respect.
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In a call for solidarity among other areas of study in the university, Sánchez Prado wisely predicts that “enemies of the university” will not stop their tirade with just the humanities: research in all fields is undoubtedly at risk.
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Despite the "pearl clutching" popular sense of peril surrounding the death of the English major, Sánchez Prado dispels the attack on the English department as a dramatization distracting us from the very real threat of extinction many foreign language programs face.
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Sánchez Prado holds nothing back, denouncing the “dumbfounding clichés and stereotypes” present in the of current discourse surrounding the value of the humanities, both from “weird and salacious” publications and “deeply inaccurate and misguided” academics.
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Who's at fault for the modern attack on the humanities? In “The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For,” author Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado challenges academics and non-academics alike to rethink the unique utopian value of the humanities.
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Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado explains why humanities scholars need to articulate a more robust defense of their disciplines.
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