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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 26d

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 · 1h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

"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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

"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 · 3d

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 · 3d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

"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/

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

"It’s not possible to read a biography of William F. Buckley today except through the lens of Trump and MAGA." Greg Barnhisel writes in his review of Sam Tanenhaus’s "Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/did-the-buck-stop-with-buckley/

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

“We had both had enough of my society with its dress codes and silk ties.” Rob Rubsam captures Berlin through a portrait of the artist as a lonely man in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-to-the-madhouse-a-novel/

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

"As if only now, in the humblest of ways, we’re learning to praise what we’ve lost, which is ourselves." Dan Beachy-Quick on Joe Deany-Braun’s "Young Santa," Sayumi Kamaura’s "Applause for a Cloud," and James Shea’s "Last Day of My Face." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/days-of-wayward-gifts/

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

LARB is excited to present Writerly Horizons: On Making and Sustaining California’s Literary Culture. Explore the influence of California literature on life here on the West Coast. Learn more and join today for invitations to the series: lareviewofbooks.org/event/writerly-horizons-editors-salon

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Mason L. Wong 王樂知 @masonlwong.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Palantir, the chip industry, US-China competition, and what tech firms mean when they talk about "defending Western civilization."

Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and the LARB team for the edits!

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The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 9d

@alexandrelefebvre.bsky.social's review of my biography of Henri Bergson is still the most popular article on the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social website! The people yearn for durée!
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When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City | Los Angeles Review of Books

Alexandre Lefebvre explores Emily Herring’s “Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People.”

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 8d

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

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

Oliver Wang speaks with two De La Soul biographers, Dave Heaton and Marcus J. Moore: "They had been fighting against the industry since they were in high school, their whole creative lives." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/f-being-hard-de-la-soul-is-complicated/

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

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

The moment you’ve been waiting for: LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien is here. Utterly otherworldly, our new issue features fiction, essays, and poetry from Anna Gaca, Brendan Boyle, Nitish Pahwa, and more. Alien is available for purchase now. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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

"Centuries before the first aerial bombing, Giordano has given us the visual language of the air strike." Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin in LARB Quarterly no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/against-the-wound/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 9d

"I was simply more myself under the Farmers Market awning, clutching a coffee cup, than I was anywhere else." Tajja Isen reminisces on her childhood trips to the Grove in the newest installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-grove/