We Thought You’d Died
Allie Rowbottom interviews Cristine Brache about her new collection, “Goodnight Sweet Thing.”
Allie Rowbottom interviews Cristine Brache about her new collection, “Goodnight Sweet Thing.”
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s “Lost Ark Dreaming.”
Pallavi Aiyar explores how the youth navigate the precarity of contemporary China in her review of two new books by Alec Ash and Yuan Yang.
Torsa Ghosal discusses Dev Patel’s film “Monkey Man” and the problematic politics of revenge.
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
Dan Hartland reviews Christopher Priest’s “Airside.”
Madeleine Connors can’t believe her Bette Davis eyes at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Baby Jane” screening.
Michael Rubenstein writes on the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Cynthia Cruz seeks truth in melancholia, Hegel, and capitalist civilization’s possible futures.
Cristóbal Riego explores the hybrid nonfiction writings of Chilean author Pedro Lemebel.
Laurie Levenson reviews Ronald Collins’s “Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial.”
Rachel Dec reviews Kyla Scanlon’s “In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work.”
Thomas Chen reviews Margaret Hillenbrand’s “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China.”
Tosten Burks watches Photay and Celia Hollander throw caution to “The Wind” at Fairfax’s Brain Dead Studios.
Eric Newman speaks with author Nell Irvin Painter about her latest collection of essays, “I Just Keep Talking.”