December 2012
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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!
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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
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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
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