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    Eating “Naturally”: Talking to Jonathan Safran Foer

    Andy Fitch interviews Jonathan Safran Foer about his latest book "We Are the Weather" and the climate perils of meat.

    Between Information and Experience: Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller Essays

    Apoorva Tadepalli connects Walter Benjamin's radio broadcasts with his thoughts on the storyteller versus the novelist.

    Keep Your Dirty Hands Off My Nightmare, Quentin Tarantino

    Kevin Dettmar reviews Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" and the obsession with historical retellings.

    What’s Left of the Israeli Left?

    Nitzan Lebovic examines how the Israeli Left is caught in a philosophical bind.

    Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, NY

    Athena Villard introduces the newest member of LARB's Reckless Reader program, Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, NY.

    When Korea Expats Podcast (or, the Pleasures and Sorrows of Teaching English)

    Colin Marshall takes a look at some of the Korean expat blog offerings today.

    ICE Raids as Praxis: Mississippi Raids as Viewed by a Legal Relief Volunteer

    Billy Todd talks about his experiences as a front-line volunteer attorney for detainees of recent ICE raids in Mississippi.

    To Do It with Questions

    For the second anniversary of the Plato Problems column, Andy Fitch poses some questions to Plato himself.

    In the Comfort of This Reality: A Conversation with Robert Wood

    Mitchell Evenson talks with Robert Wood about his new book of essays "Suburbanism."

    Creativity in the Age of the Twitter Mob

    Walter Benjamin famously asserted that “[t]here is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document …