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Normalnost | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Peter Pomerantsev, author of “This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality,” looks at the new normal in the era of Putin and Trump.
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The Fight to Unionize Amazon | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new documentary “Union,” which is out in theaters now.
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The Eternal Return of Fascism: A Conversation with Rob Riemen | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Natasha Lennard speaks with Rob Riemen about the new fascism and the values of European humanism.
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Why Are We Stuck Here: "Squid Game," Trauma, and Repetition | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Hannah Amaris Roh argues that Squid Game's simplicity masks its meta-commentary on the trauma of capitalism
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Philosophical Dead Ends | Los Angeles Review of Books
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John Dupré reviews Richard Dawkins’s “The Genetic Book of the Dead” and Sara Imari Walker’s “Life as No One Knows It.”
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Seriality and Slow Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Lauren Eriks Cline looks back at 20 years of the TV series “Lost” and the lessons it holds for us today.
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The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and “Desperately Seeking Susan” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Brontez Purnell pays tribute to Madonna through a close reading of her performance in “Desperately Seeking Susan,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation.”
on Dec 11
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Play and the Engine of Creation | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Julien Crockett interviews Kelly Clancy about gamification, simulations, and her new book “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”
on Dec 11
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New Tyrannies | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sophie Kemp considers the recent and ongoing radicalization of young men in the United States.
on Dec 8
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On Melons and Melancholy | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Ben Wurgaft demonstrates how Steven Shapin’s “Eating and Being” illuminates the intellectual and cultural dynamics of “dietetics”—the relationship between diet, health, and identity—like no prior work on the subject.
on Dec 6
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Adam Kelly delves into the murky intersection of art and politics in Putin’s Russia, through the work of Vladislav Surkov.
on Dec 3
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Gimme More: On Sianne Ngai’s “Theory of the Gimmick” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Andrew Koenig reviews "Theory of the Gimmick," the new book from Sianne Ngai.
on Nov 29
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Lily Geismer on the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”
on Nov 26
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How Does the Writer Say Etcetera? | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of “etceterization.”
on Nov 25
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Freudulence | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
on Nov 24
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Trump l’Oeil | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Gideon Jacobs peers into the uncanny valley of the Republican President-elect.
on Nov 20
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Noir for the Anthropocene: On Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Chelsea Jack Fitzgerald reviews Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia,” a Scottish noir interested in the connections between different types of anthropogenic damage.
on Nov 16
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Whose Future Is It Anyway? | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Jess Maginity reviews Jordan S. Carroll’s “Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right.”
on Nov 15
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Celluloid Dreams: Revolution and Its Enemies in Cold War Global Cinema | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Jason Christian reviews “Revolution in 35mm,” edited by Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan.
on Nov 15
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Chronicles of Collapse | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Erik Loomis reviews “The Burning Earth: A History” by Sunil Amrith.
on Nov 13
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DOOMguy Knows How You Feel | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Learn rage and to reconnect that rage to the joy of its expression.
on Nov 13
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Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Roger Berkowitz reviews Hannah Arendt’s landmark “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” framing the book within the context of contemporary politics.
on Nov 11
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
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In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
on Nov 8
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A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Peter B. Kaufman reviews the 18th edition of “The Chicago Manual of Style.”
on Oct 24
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Cop Cities Mock Cities | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Stuart Schrader examines the historical origins and current ramifications of “cop city” complexes.
on Oct 23
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Manuscripts Don’t Burn | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Raymond De Luca reviews a long-awaited new film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.”
on Oct 23
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The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Samuel G. Freedman traces the long and contradictory intellectual journey of the man behind Project 2025.
on Oct 18
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On the bleak tales of Leo Tolstoy's "The Lion and the Puppy: And Other Stories for Children."
on Oct 17
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The Definitive History of Neo-Nazi Edgelords | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Jordan Carroll reviews Spencer Sunshine’s “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s ‘Siege.’”
on Oct 10
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American Mythology | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology? Tom Zoellner looks at “A Great Disorder” by Richard Slotkin.
on Oct 7
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Nostalgia for World Culture: A New History of Esperanto | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Ross Perlin on Esther Schor’s “Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language.”
on Oct 4
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The Most Moral Army | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their ongoing genocide in Gaza.
on Oct 4
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Weird Nonfiction | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
on Oct 1
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The Soviet Union and the Birth of Human Rights | Los Angeles Review of Books
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LARB presents an excerpt from “A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States” by Eric D. Weitz.
on Sep 29
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The Dark Shadow of the Chinese Dream | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s “Fear of Seeing” and the first two books of Han Song’s “Hospital” trilogy.
on Sep 27
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Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline.
on Sep 26
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Legacies of Eugenics | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Legacies of Eugenics is a series made up of essays by those who think deeply about what eugenics is; its entanglements with science, technology and medicine; and its past and futures.
on Sep 19
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What, Then, Is Natural? | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Obi Kaufmann considers the coming of the modern megafire and many deeply entrenched misconceptions about California’s land, in an excerpt from “The State of Fire.”
on Sep 16
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Germany’s New Mini-Reichs | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Timothy Wright chronicles the mini-state movement in Germany.
on Sep 15
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I … Am Herman Melville! | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
on Sep 11
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Charlie Markbreiter analyzes Chelsea Manning as era-defining symbol, internet darling, and enemy of the state, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
on Sep 10
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GROUP CHAT: Group Chats | Los Angeles Review of Books
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For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
on Sep 8
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Sofia Samatar’s “Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sofia Samatar speaks with Kate Wolf about her new book “Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life.”
on Sep 7
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A Reluctant Übermensch | Los Angeles Review of Books
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D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
on Sep 3
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Ray Bradbury and the Last Global Pandemic | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Ray Bradbury never forgot the tragedy of the 1918 pandemic.
on Aug 29
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The Impossibility of Children’s Television | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Madeline Ullrich explores the contradictions of “children’s television” in the Max/ID series “Quiet on Set” and Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow.”
on Aug 26
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Too Little, Too Late for TV’s Woman Writer? | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Annie Berke considers the figure of the woman writer in the popular TV series “Bridgerton” and “Hacks,” in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
on Aug 24
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We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know
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What is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender and Women’s Studies curriculum that I’…
on Aug 23
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Breeding for IQ | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
on Aug 23
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Building a Public Energy Commons | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
on Aug 10