.Jenessa Abrams reads Miranda July's latest novel: ''All Fours' can read as the exploration and subsequent explosion of this inquiry: 'Who gets to be a child? Whose life gets to be filled with desire—with reinvention—with wonder?'' lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi…

'To me, fiction has always been a way to take the chaotic, violent, frightening, and beautiful experiences that come just from being alive and give them a little more order.' Ladette Randolph interviews Carolyn Kuebler about 'Liquid, Fragile, Perishable.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-the…

'Befitting the end to a slasher trilogy, this forest fire somehow brings more blades, not less.' @justinwigard reads Stephen Graham Jones's 'The Angel of Indian Lake.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/scars-…

'What is my beginning as an African American person? Where does my story begin? Above all that is this idea of telling one's story in a particular way for safety or performance reasons.'@Tiffany_Troy_ and Morgan Parker talk 'You Get What You Pay For.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-w…

'What makes this 'world of sensation,' the lap pool, so suited to the historically feminist practice of self-writing?' asks @maddiecrum in her review of Colombe Schneck's 'Swimming In Paris.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/learni…

'John Muir's first visit to Yosemite 'was far more pedestrian than the heavenly glory he ascribed to it in his later writings.'' Andrew Graybill reviews Robert Aquinas McNally's 'Case Out of Eden.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/rootin…

Professor saree makdisi سريّ المقدسي diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives. lareviewofbooks.org/article/for-wh…

'The pre-'Megalopolis' films attempt to bid farewell to what could have been. Their power isn't drawn from Coppola's success, but rather his need to keep failing.' Dylan Adamson examines 2024 film 'Megalopolis' and Francis Ford Coppola's career. lareviewofbooks.org/article/contin…

'It's easy to look at a dead person and fight for them. But how do we fight for people who are in pain, and being daily affected by white supremacy?' @Tiffany_Troy_ interviews Morgan Parker about her first essay collection, 'You Get What You Pay For.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-w…

''Angel' is sincere and poignant in the literary magic that manifests in conversations between two blood-stained women surviving a world that resists them at every turn.' @justinwigard reviews 'The Angel of Indian Lake.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/scars-…

Like most of us, I’ve been more focused on my students than my publications these past few weeks, but I want to catch up to the folks who have welcomed SCATTERED AND FUGITIVE THINGS into the world! First up, thank you Dorothy Berry for this generous reading in Los Angeles Review of Books

Writer and Dorothy, a publishing project co-founder Danielle Dutton joins #LARBRadioHour to talk 'Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other.' A collection of stories and essays, the book exemplifies Dutton’s approach to writing: laced with dread, wonder, and silence. prototype

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In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” sam sax presents lore so uncanny it might as well be real. lareviewofbooks.org/article/invent…

Kristen Malone Poli examines divorce, hunger, and contemporary morality in the personal essay. 'Once their courtships are over, crumbs cleared from the table, we find our authors wanting, hungry.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/mythic…

On May 31, join LARB, Center for the Art of Translation, and The Ruby SF for 'Women in Translation: Stories from Croatia and Kazakhstan,' featuring translators Ena Selimović and Mirgul Kali and historian and writer Daniela Blei. RSVP at thethirdplace.is/event/womenint…

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Update! Our poetry workshop with LARB Poetry Editor and author of 'Two Minds' Callie Siskel has been pushed back to May 22—which means there's still time to sign up. Join the workshop and learn more at lareviewofbooks.org/event/reflecti…

'For whom is campus to be 'safe'? For students and faculty exercising their right to academic freedom? Or for those who require a militarized system of policing?' saree makdisi سريّ المقدسي on the attacks on the UCLA encampment—and the administration's response. lareviewofbooks.org/article/for-wh…