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! Show your appreciation and...
Dec 26th
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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: ...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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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...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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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...
Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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