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The Narratives We Need
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (147+ words) Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills. Tachyon Publications, 2026. 256 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Ruth Joffre is a Bolivian American writer and the author of the story collection Night Beast (2018). Her work has been short-listed for the Creative Capital…...
Rewriting the Commandments with Chat GPT
5+ hour, 36+ min ago (800+ words) The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity by Jamie Metzl. Transcend Books, 2026. 208 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Metzl and I met at a caf" in early April to talk about AI, faith, and the state of humanity…...
The Failure of Bildungsroman
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (178+ words) The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks by Eka Kurniawan. Translated by Annie Tucker. New Directions, 2026. 128 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org I would like to thank Himawan T. Pambudi for sending me a copy of this novel when it was originally published…...
Story Is Haunting
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (185+ words) Glyph by Ali Smith. Pantheon, 2026. 288 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org SCOTTISH NOVELIST Ali Smith has been writing prizewinning novels concerned with art, narrative, ghosts, and climate change for 25 years. Best known for her Seasonal Quartet (201620), begun in the aftermath of…...
Murky Effects
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (215+ words) The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley. New York Review Books, 2026. 224 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Laura's mother also "does voices," framed as the vulgar symptom of a showy nature. She would "call out hopelessly, and in a strange accent, "Speak-a…...
A Survival Kit
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (531+ words) Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez by Jayne Cortez. Nightboat Books, 2025. 688 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS: One way to think about the field of Black women's writing is before and after Jayne Cortez. What were the…...
The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution, Part II
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (313+ words) Part I of this essay was published yesterday and is available here. The Academy as Brand Cover of The Pictorial Turn, edited by Neal Curtis (Routledge, 2010). The idea of a pictorial or iconic "turn" in the study of culture was…...
The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution, Part I | Los Angeles Review of Books
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (229+ words) Person, Place, and Thing Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511. Apostolic Palace, Vatican Museums, Vatican City. Public domain. "tienne Colaud, Doctors at the University of Paris from Chants Royaux manuscript, 1537. Cover image of the English translation of Pierre Bourdieu's Homo Academicus…...
LARB Book Club Discussion: "One Leg on Earth" by "Pemi Aguda
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (205+ words) Join LARB staff and members in conversation about the latest Book Club pick, "Pemi Aguda's One Leg on Earth! A haunting debut novel, One Leg on Earth offers a chilling vision of the dark side of progress alongside an exploration…...
"One Leg on Earth" by "Pemi Aguda | Los Angeles Review of Books
6+ day, 14+ min ago (334+ words) From the author of the National Book Award finalist Ghostroots, "Pemi Aguda returns with One Leg on Earth, a haunting debut novel that offers a chilling vision of the dark side of progress alongside an exploration of motherhood, and we…...