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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

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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Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social · 5d

A new poem of mine is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in the ALIEN edition. It's a part of a manuscript of ars poeticas I'm working on. Thank you to everyone at LARB. This poem is for my friend Dante Di Stefano.

Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

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Harrison Blackman @hblackman.bsky.social · 5d

Why are Greek movies so strange? It turns out they've been "weird" for a while, and not for the reasons you might think. My latest essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #film #architecture lareviewofbooks.org/article/cris...

Crisis Makes Weird | Los Angeles Review of Books

Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.

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Rebecca Kelliher @rebeccakelliher.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to the fabulous @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for this Q&A on my new book, JUST PILLS, chronicling the extraordinary history of abortion pills—and of feminist networks putting these pills into women's hands despite the odds!
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Pills Have Legs | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”

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

"A social order capable of rational management of de-extinction practices would arguably be rational enough to never produce a situation where de-extinction emerges as a desired possibility." Karoline Huber on Colossal and "de-extinction." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/colossal-biosciences/

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

"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

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

"The story of abortion has always been about politics, not science, which in the U.S. has repeatedly tried to impede access to abortion pills." @jlloydgeorge.bksy.social interviews Rebecca Keliher about her new book "Just Pills." lareviewofbooks.org/article/pills-have-legs/

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

"The trajectory of intelligent life on this planet can be described as an evolution of its verbs: to move, to reproduce, to use, to think." Patrick House writes about what might constitute the difference between artificial and natural intelligence. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-isnt-intelligence/

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

John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”: “Kosky engages a remarkable range of texts and images in an extended, learned, and deeply personal meditation.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heart-of-the-matter/

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

Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword”: “Chung’s ability to insert the emotional register of popular activism into a narrative adopted from a traditional military chronicle might surprise readers.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/memory-dismembered/

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

"From Guangdong to Green Bay, how and why people work are less different than it might initially seem." Martin Dolan reviews Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/common-roots/

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

In her featured story for LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien, Ari Braverman captures exile and taut relationships of the domestic world: "She was her Mother’s creature, all the way through." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dogs-of-the-solar-steppe/

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

“Kafka’s picaresque story is built on the premise that dogs cannot see humans—their food is delivered by invisible hands. ” Isabel Jacobs considers Aaron Schuster’s "How to Research Like a Dog." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dogito-ergo-sum/

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

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 · 5d

“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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

"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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

"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 · 7d

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