This article is a preview of the LARB Quarterly, no. 41: Truth. Become a member or subscribe today to get this issue plus the next four issues of the LARB Quarterly. ¤ LANGUAGE IS A THING wit...
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EILEEN MYLES is an award-winning poet and writer who has published more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. They have received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Warhol Foundation Arts Writ...
THE 2023 FILM The Zone of Interest—a UK, Polish, and US co-production—was widely lauded for its sound design, winning the 2023 Academy Award for best sound and Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA ...
I WAS ROCKED by Ben Caldwell’s I & I: An African Allegory (1979) when I first saw the film at a screening curated by his former student, the filmmaker Arthur Jafa. The film offers an early iter...
EVERYONE IS UNHAPPY in Ennis, Alaska, the setting of the fourth season of True Detective (2014– ). To be fair, things are pretty bad: a mining outfit has wrecked the local ecosystem; blizzards ...
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FED UP WITH Starbucks union-busting, you visit the supermarket to search for a new coffee blend. Facing a wall of options, you note the sophisticated authenticity of Peet’s, the mellow notes of...
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JORGE LUIS BORGES’S first trip to Japan in 1979 was dedicated to the demons in his father’s library. Borges’s fascination with Japan began—like many of his fascinations—in English books...
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THERE IS A PERIOD in American capitalism that created the trauma plot. The War on Terror dovetailing with Web 2.0 storytelling—the monetization of personal data at their intersection—it all s...
ELONGATED. TRUNCATED. TURNED INSIDE OUT. I worked recently with a colleague with whom I had not collaborated since the early days of the pandemic, and the two of us tried to describe our experien...
FRANZ KAFKA NEVER traveled to America, but that didn’t stop him writing a novel about it. Or at least starting one. Der Verschollene (which means something like “the missing person,” “the...