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A Freak Flag Flown at Half-Mast
Adam Nayman considers Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film “Kinds of Kindness” amid the provocateur director’s broader body of work.
Criticism
Chronicles of Liminality
Tristan Marshall, a graduate of the foster care system, considers Rob Henderson’s “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.”
Reconfiguring the Categories
Yelena Furman reviews Karolina Krasuska’s “Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction.”
A Freak Flag Flown at Half-Mast
Adam Nayman considers Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film “Kinds of Kindness” amid the provocateur director’s broader body of work.
Do Public Schools Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart?
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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From the Archive
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“A Mix of Malcolm and Milton”: On Corey Robin’s “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas”
John W. W. Zeiser finds many keys in “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas” by Corey Robin.
The Myth America Show
Josie Torres Barth reviews Molly A. Schneider’s “Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture.”
We Think Back Through Our Artistic Mothers
Madeline Howard reviews Hannah Regel’s “The Last Sane Woman.”
The Last Avant-Garde
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
What Water Teaches Us
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s “Lost Ark Dreaming.”
Tales of Transformation in China
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.
A Disproportionate Display of Force: The Lure of Epic Rage
Torsa Ghosal discusses Dev Patel’s film “Monkey Man” and the problematic politics of revenge.
Poor Reading, Weak Theory: An Excerpt from “The Amateur”
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
Waiting in Null Space
Dan Hartland reviews Christopher Priest’s “Airside.”
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