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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29d

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://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13h

“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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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13h

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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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13h

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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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13h

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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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13h

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 to rethink the unique utopian value of the humanities. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-humanities-are-worth-fighting-for/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15h

In this week's special episode of #LARBRadioHour, Chris Kraus joins Kate Wolf to talk about her new novel, "The Four Spent the Day Together." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/chris-krauss-the-four-spent-the-day-together/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.” Read her poem, "Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …" and others by getting your copy today! https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"Their practice encompasses architecture and performance, training their sights on the conventions and ideas that shape everyday life." Michael Kurcfeld interviews Elmgreen & Dragset about "The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" at Pace Gallery in LA. https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/double-vision-[video]/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Oliver Evans reviews "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood, USA" by Will Sloan: "The worst film by Ed Wood is more interesting than the best film by Ron Howard, Sloan argues, which is admittedly a checkmate."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: Alien. Get your issue today! https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"Wade pays particular attention to the ways Stein’s writing and her intimate life with Toklas intertwine." Jacquelyn Ardam on Francesca Wade’s "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages in his poem, "Adams" from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.” Get your issue today. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel "Shadow Ticket": "If 'Shadow Ticket' turns out to be Pynchon’s final voyage, it’s hard to imagine one more poignant." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/good-night-and-good-luck/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"Sometimes these women shed their pelts in some secret place / To become human women again."

Read more of "The Dog" by aracelis girmay, from LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-aracelis-girmays-the-dog/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4d

"There are metaphors that we live by, but there are also narratives that we live within." Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of "The Neural Mind: How Brains Think."

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4d

“I’ll say, Hello, Alien. Thank you for your love. I am literally / a mess here. An expanded sense of life kicks in when one meets / someone fatally connected to oneself. Timothy Donnelly's poem for LARB Quarterly no. 46: "Alien." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/timothy-donnellys-to-the-alien/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5d

"Exploring motherhood in feminist discourses across literature and photography helped me to find my voice, to articulate these wounds in writing." Alex Tan speaks with Egyptian author Iman Mersal about her new book “Motherhood and its Ghosts.”https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fissure-from-within/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: "Alien." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jeremy-ras-janis-carter-lives-in-gambia-for-years-to-rehabilitate-lucy-the-chimp-back-into-the-wild/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6d

"To be stateless is to be unwanted, by everyone, everywhere." Nitish Pahwa unravels the legal and familial complexities of statelessness in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: "Alien." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/unsettled-enough/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6d

"Laurentiis's book felt so much like a breath of detoxified air." @rmcilvain.bsky.social review Rickey Laurentiis ' "Death of the First Idea" and Geoff Bouvier's "Us from Nothing." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-deep-engine-of-witness/

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 7d

"What makes Bloom’s memoir so exquisite is not her recounting of the setbacks but her reflections on how her fate was mediated by technology." Arjun S. Byju considers Emily C. Bloom’s "I Cannot Control Everything Forever." lareviewofbooks.org/article/cont...

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 7d

In this week's special episode of #LARBRadioHour, Kate Wolf speaks to J. Hoberman about his latest book, "Everything is Now." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/j-hobermans-everything-is-now-primal-happenings-radical-music-underground-movies-and-the-1960s-new-york-avant-garde/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 7d

"The suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel felt more like an omen." @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social on censorship, the FCC, and the television industry over time. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/indecent-disposal-fcc-and-the-censoring-of-late-night/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 8d

"We think we’re living in a municipality, but in truth, it's a marketized model. We think we live in a public space, but in reality, it's a portfolio." Mikkel Krause Frantzen on the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis. lareviewofbooks.org/article/making-a-killing/