Books American Factory: 21st Century Globalized Capitalism in Microcosm - Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org For the next step, you'll be taken to a website to complete the donation and enter your billing information. You'll then be redirected back to …
Poetry Rhyme’s Raisinlareviewofbooks.org - By Joshua Stanley IN 1963, AT THE age of 26, the young J. H. Prynne gave a radio talk on the BBC called “The Elegiac World in Victorian Poetry.” The previous year, …
Books High Visibility: Reexamining “Medium Cool” on Its 50th Anniversarylareviewofbooks.org - By Piper French IT’S CHICAGO, 1968, and a woman in a dress the color of a high-visibility vest is running through a crowd of protestors gathered in Grant Park. Her …
Books Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2019lareviewofbooks.org - By Greil Marcus LARB IS HAPPY to announce that it will serve as the new home for “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus. 1. Lana Del …
Books No Success Like Failurelareviewofbooks.org - By Tim Riley WHEN I FIRST SAW Nick Lowe at a standing-room-only club in Boston in 1990, it felt as though every person in the room had once sold me a used record. …
Books Richard Kalvar: “Looking for Things in the Street”lareviewofbooks.org - By Eric Gudas A NAKED MAN leans forward, caught in mid-sashay, high up on the Brooklyn Bridge’s otherwise unpeopled pedestrian walkway. His legs, one straight, the …
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Books Ghost or Glitch: On Ruth Ware’s Contemporary Retelling of “The Turn of the Screw”lareviewofbooks.org - By Karen Brissette RUTH WARE’S FIFTH NOVEL, The Turn of the Key, is a Victorian Gothic brought roughly into the modern age, Henry James via Black Mirror. As the title …
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Books The Humanities in the Age of Lonelinesslareviewofbooks.org - By Robert D. Newman HOW CAN THE HUMANITIES help restore the centrality of the public good, an essential step toward the collective action necessary for combating our …
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Books Imitation and Extinction: The Case Against Realitylareviewofbooks.org - By Donald D. Hoffman Imitation is the cleverest form of weaponry deployed by predators and prey. Mexican milk snakes, which lack venom, sport vivid bands of red, black, …
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Books The Self That No One Chooses: A Q-and-A with Chris Dennis on “Here Is What You Do: Stories”lareviewofbooks.org - Katya Apekina interviews Chris Dennis I MET CHRIS DENNIS 10 years ago in St. Louis — he’d been awarded the prestigious third-year fellowship at Washington University where I was starting …
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Books Toward a Useful Melancholy: On Howard Norman’s Ghost Storieslareviewofbooks.org - By Mark Athitakis IN AUGUST 1977, the novelist Howard Norman traveled to Churchill, Canada, a small town on the western edge of the Hudson Bay in Manitoba. He’d been …
Books Johnson and Companylareviewofbooks.org - By Jake Fuchs THE LITERARY CLUB, often called simply the Club, was founded in London in 1764 by Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and seven other luminaries, …
