Flying Right up to the Sun
Katya Apekina interviews Priyanka Mattoo about her memoir “Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.”
Katya Apekina interviews Priyanka Mattoo about her memoir “Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.”
Bruce Nauman’s Manipulating a Fluorescent Tube (1969), black and white video with sound, courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York; Kentaro Kawabata at Nonaka-Hill. Courtesy of Kentaro Kawabata and Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles.
Tristan Marshall, a graduate of the foster care system, considers Rob Henderson’s “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.”
Someone give Brittany Menjivar a MacArthur Fellowship for her work reviewing Tarek Ziad’s one-man show in Los Angeles!
Lina Abascal reports from the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore interviews Stacey D’Erasmo about “The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry.”
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, “The Coin.”
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Eli Diner witnesses patrons refusing to pay for their own art (why should they?) at the Brick gallery’s Allan Sekula–estate book sale.
Yelena Furman reviews Karolina Krasuska’s “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction.”
Jess Libow explores how disabled writers have taken up Frida Kahlo’s image and legacy.
Adam Nayman considers Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film “Kinds of Kindness” amid the provocateur director’s broader body of work.
Is school choice compatible with a national lesson plan? Johann N. Neem considers a radical new proposal from Ashley Rogers Berner.
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Someone give Brittany Menjivar a MacArthur Fellowship for her work reviewing Tarek Ziad’s one-man show in Los Angeles!
Eli Diner witnesses patrons refusing to pay for their own art (why should they?) at the Brick gallery’s Allan Sekula–estate book sale.
Madeleine Connors steps into the blockchain to watch the Sparks almost crush the Mystics at Crypto.com Arena.
Madeleine Connors can’t believe her Bette Davis eyes at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Baby Jane” screening.
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, “The Coin.”
Eric Newman speaks with author Nell Irvin Painter about her latest collection of essays, “I Just Keep Talking.”
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with author Patrick Nathan about his latest novel, and this month’s LARB Book Club pick, “The Future Was Color.”
Claire Messud joins Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf to discuss her latest novel, “This Strange Eventful History.”