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Rigoberto Gonzalez on the fourth books of three mid-career poets: Ada Limon, Kyle Dargan, and Quan Barry.
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Merve Emre on Emily Gould's 'Friendship' and the reason Gawker snark and the novel are very different things.
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Nov 27, 2025 - Sifting the contradictions of the Bible can bring Jesus and Mary into sharper focus and illuminate their surprisingly human features.
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C. Francis Fisher interviews Shangyang Fang about his new book “Study of Sorrow: Translations.”
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Nov 13, 2025 - As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
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Jaffa at the turn of the century. Nothing really, not even the simple, cheap and good life that grew to seem so full of essence, of sweetness like
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CRB Summer 2021, Vol. XXI, Number 3
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Nov 27, 2025 - Cryptocurrency has largely managed to remain free of government regulation, and as a result has often become a vehicle for fraud and criminality.
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https://thenewpodlerreviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-best-of-2016.html
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Nov 13, 2025 - If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
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Oct 16, 2025 - In its efforts to define religion, modern sociology has also sought to define itself.
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The ways Octavia Butler depicted Pasadena offer a window into her own thinking, but also into the power of race and class in the city that shaped that life.
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Tajja Isen reminisces on the extra-retail therapies of childhood trips to The Grove in the newest installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 46:...
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https://www.crosswalk.com/culture/books/party-of-one-solidarity-for-singles-with-a-message-for-marrieds-too.html
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Cory Oldweiler reviews Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s novel “Eye of the Monkey,” newly translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
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2 October at 1:00pm (UK) and 8:00pm (HK): A special on-line presentation from Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival Voices in Hong Kong: Melanie...
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https://calirb.com/10-best-books-of-2025/
The following list was decided after consultation between California Review of Books co-editors David Starkey and Brian Tanguay and the journal’s most...
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As Sudanese civilians endure the world’s biggest displacement and humanitarian crises, uprooted political analyst Dallia Abdelmoniem unpacks the genocidal...
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To commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, Chameleon Press will publish a new collection of poetry in which...
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Jack Gross interviews historian of science Lorraine Daston about her early work on rules, which has become newly salient in the age of algorithms.
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Leah Mirakhor interviews author, musician, and cultural critic Greg Tate.
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"The Optician of Lampedusa" by Emma Jane Kirby. Reviewed by Cassie Richards, published by Allen Lane.
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/evolution-moral-progress-getting-better-all-the-time/
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The influence of street gang culture on art in Los Angeles has been systematically underrepresented by academia and art history.
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The LARB Book Club is one of the Los Angeles Review of Books’s signature membership perks where we discuss the seasonal selection directly with the...
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The small, lovely, but difficult, ways human beings heal in a world rife with mistakes and misjudgments, wrongdoing and despair.
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Robert Rubsam offers a portrait of the artist as a lonely man, in an excerpt featured in the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/the-dream-of-forgetfulness-primer-for-forgetting-lewis-hyde/
May 25, 2023 - When Jorge Luis Borges was asked if he’d forgiven the Peronists of Argentina, he replied, “Forgetting is the only form of forgiveness; it’s the only
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May 28, 2025 - It is one of the most important Arab book fairs regarding the number of visitors, sales volume, diversity of cultural programs, and number of
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Jan 9, 2026 - Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.
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James S. House's "Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy" tackles head-on growing health inequality in America.
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Jun 19, 2025 - The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has...
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Are America’s cultural exports worse than junk food?
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-more-heroes/
Clara Cuccaro considers the “myth of resistance” in Joachim Trier’s newest film, “Sentimental Value.”
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https://www.crosswalk.com/culture/books/travel-through-i-the-spiritual-world-of-the-hobbit-i.html
Travel Through The Spiritual World of the Hobbit , Glenn McCarty - Read more Christian book reviews and excerpts.
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What does it mean to wear your politics on your sleeve? Pittsburgh activist, retired coal miner, and public school teacher Kipp Dawson has an extensive
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