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Best of Radar LARB 2012
The year in reading…
The Lonely Ones by Emily Cooke
What Should Be the Function of Criticism Today? by Anis Shivani
A short history of Homo sapiens, as well as a prognosis for our survival by Charles C. Mann
On meeting one’s cooler self by Eric Puchner
Silly Theory (Or, the Second Time as Farce) by J.A. Stein
Nixon’s statement “In Event of Moon Disaster” by William...
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"Disruptive innovation" needs you, give to LARB...
“What is being done at the Los Angeles Review of Books is renegade. The fish swimming upstream. A perfect example of disruptive innovation in a floundering industry.” – Forbes “Since launching in April, the Los Angeles Review of Books has become immediately notable for both the quality of its writing, the range of its interests, and the names of its contributors.” - National Book Critics Circle...
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Janet Fitch supports LARB, so should you.
Here’s what Janet Fitch said about last month’s LARB fundraising dinner with Jon Robin Baitz, after a performance of his play Other Desert Cities, at the Mark Taper Forum:
What a great night that was, and thank you for the invitation. A memorable, memorable evening. The kind of thing I secretly hoped for when I dreamed of becoming writer—not just to produce my own work,...
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Why do you support LARB?
Here’s what one donor recently told us:
At a moment in time when newspapers have decimated their book review sections and when the few that remain tend to focus on more popular books, LARB remains an intellectual beacon covering an extraordinarily wide range of new works in dozens of fields. The reading public is grateful for all you do. Thanks!
Show your appreciation and...
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In this season of giving, consider giving your tax deductible support to an institution dedicated to delivering the best that is thought and written every day.
As a reader supported organization, we depend on your generosity to stay strong. Your donations go directly toward making it possible for us to publish groundbreaking essays on all subjects and genres. Including, just recently:
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Five Feminist Footnotes from Jane Austen by Audrey Bilger
Geoff Dyer’s Renovation of Contemporary Nonfiction by William Deresiewicz
Poetry Makes You Weird by Eric G. Wilson
The Essential Guide to Good Sex Writing by Edmund White
When Bram Stoker Met Walt Whitman by Meredith Hindley
Inside the Greatest Writers Room You’ve Never Heard Of by Nell Scovell
Joseph Jastrow...
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Do Epigraphs Matter? by Rachel Sagner Buurma
Excerpt from noir masterpiece Lament in the Night (1925) by Shoson Nagahara
Let Us Eat Cake: On the UC system’s new logo by Aaron Bady
Threat Level: Against Homeland by Richard Beck
Earth, Under Repair, Forever by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Gruesome ‘Sabbath’: Roth’s Vile, Brilliant Masterpiece by Matthew Specktor
What Happened...
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Silly Theory (Or, the Second Time as Farce) by J.A. Stein
Pomp and Exceptional Circumstance (How Students are Forced to Prop up the Education Bubble by Malcolm Harris
Five Reasons to Read Edith Wharton by Claire Miye Stanford
The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks
Twilight on the Tundra by Julia Phillips
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THE LARB FUND DRIVE'S GREATEST HITS: Evan Kindley...
It’s odd now to reflect that Maria Bustillos’s first appearance in the pages of the Los Angeles Review of Books was as the object (or maybe it’s better to say “catalyst”) of a lengthy critique by Sven Birkerts. Maria — who, unbeknownst to any of us at the time of the publication of Sven’s piece, is a native daughter of Los Angeles — has since become one of our...
