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Lights up. Scene on.
Our 50th issue of the LARB Quarterly, Scene, is out now! Take centerstage with fiction, essays, and poetry from Rachel Cusk, Samuel Chu, Maya C. Popa, Sarah Ruhl, and more. Get your copy today.
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"Real relationships get messy and require vulnerability and sustained effort. But they’re also where the best moments of life are lived."
@AMcDiarmid reviews Sherry Turkle's new book on AI relationships: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"In keeping with a capitalist morality of trickle-down liberation, the empire announces that it must be free of its worst self before Palestine and Palestinians can be free."
Fady Joudah on the "liberalization of liberation" of Palestine: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"He thinks his time is coming. The rest of us should be prepared."
From the archives: Elizabeth Harper on JD Vance's new book, "Communion," and its roots in Peter Thiel's work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Towards a more serious reading of Palestinan literature
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"Organizations will always be recognizably human. The 'exceptional' company does not exist."
@EvanSelinger reviews "Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech" by Claire Stapleton: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Applications are now open for the spring 2027 LARB internship program! We're seeking interns for our social media and editorial departments, running from January 18 - May 26, 2027. Learn more and apply: airtable.com/app5UeNk1TbjY8i…
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"Garnett’s poems evince a deep awareness of the fundamental unknowability of our world, of other human beings, even of the self."
Shoshana Olidort on Callie Garnett's latest collection, "Shit Hike": lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"She wants to make monsters of us—to infuse a little animal into our humanity, for the better."
From the archives: Emma Wood reflects on reading and watching the work of Perrin Ireland and her new book "Poking the Squid": lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"I don’t think it’s possible to waste time when you’re off the internet. If you’re present in your life, you can’t waste time."
Holiday Dmitri interviews August Lamm about building a social world beyond the screen: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"The 'Turandot' centennial is an occasion for considering the political issues that the opera has raised over the last century."
Larry Wolff on the legacy of "Turandot" 100 years later: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"How well do we know him or ourselves, then or now?"
A multi-part feature by Fady Joudah, including an essay and 3 translations of renowned Palestinian writers Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Kanafani. Read more: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"A world too austere for art is impoverished in more than one sense."
From the archives: Scott W. Stern explores the burgeoning field of fictional character biographies: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"Weathers are made and produced by conditions of carcerality—the air contained, the sun focused."
Penn Newell on how the state’s weaponization of weather pervades Franz Kafka’s work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Scene about town—have you picked up your copy yet?
Our 50th issue is available now: shop.lareviewofbooks.org/pro…
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"It becomes contagious, this lovesickness. I find myself beside Butler, reading with her the way that she writes with Cookie and Kathy."
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews "Close Writing" by Alice Butler: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"If 'Turandot' in 1926 spoke to the glory of China in legendary past centuries, in 2026 the opera speaks to China’s spectacular ascent and possible future preeminence."
Larry Wolff on the "Turandot" centennial: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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After watching "You Can See Everything." the #LARBRadioHour is revisiting our episode on honesty, Our hosts examine the "honesty crisis" facing culture, and the internet's capacity as an engine for dishonesty.
Listen now: lareviewofbooks.org/av/hones…
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"Poised between the ironic gentility of Trilling and the cascading fury of Swift, Said emerges renewed and reinvigorated."
Conor McCarthy reviews two new books on Edward Said: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"Akhlaghi’s pictures are, in this sense, cathartic to behold: they offer a renewal by passage through negative emotions."
Hamid Dabashi on Azadeh Akhlaghi's Peabody Museum exhibition: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"Vermeer captured something both about paint and irreducible to paint; his art is, at some fundamental level, about irreducibility itself."
Kirsten Burke on Ruth Bernard Yeazell's latest: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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