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@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"It’s astounding how infrequently Afghans’ humanity and history show up on American radar."
@leilanadir.bsky.social on empire, and American amnesia: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/afghanistan-american-imperialism-invasion-terrorism-bush-reagan-taliban
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"In the same way that ballroom parodies authority, it also performs a critique of capitalism."
Armando Ledezma on voguing with the House of Ruber in Caracas, from our new issue Scene: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/caracas-ballroom-venezuela-queer-dance-scene-armando-ledezma/
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialPlaces, people! Come celebrate the launch of our 50th issue with a screening and party at the Now Instant Bar and Bookstore.
Get your ticket and be part of the scene: https://now-instant.la/events/larb-scene
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"One of the magazine's enduring pleasures is its unwieldy name—unwieldy like an unmuzzled ox, you might say."
Alex Kitnick on the cult journal that seduced the best writers and artists—from our new issue: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/larb-quarterly-unmuzzled-ox-michael-andre-literary-journal
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialJosh Billings on "The Hamlet Called America": "The novel opens on a note that feels both sly and disarming, pandering to our love of idylls and winking to let us know it knows better."
@caired.bsky.socialReposted by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialMore important than asking whether games are art, is asking what riches do we gain when we start treating them as such: as works that we can challenge ourselves to learn from or engage deeply with.
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialOn this week's #LARBRadioHour, Fady Joudah joins the podcast to talk about his new book "Exhibit G" and how to avoid what he calls the “museumification” of the Palestinian people.
Listen now: https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/fady-joudah-exhibit-g-podcast-interview
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialYvonne Kim reviews Ellie Black's "Revelator": "Black’s versatility offers a novel take on the tired, contemporary preoccupation with what one might call 'everything is embarrassing' poetry."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ellie-black-revelator-poetry-digital-internet-culture-femininity
@nabilsalih.bsky.socialReposted by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialAfghanistan in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, beautifully.
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"9/11 can’t be an inciting incident unless you’re erasing history."
@leilanadir.bsky.social on American Amnesia 25 years after the invasion of Afghanistan: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/afghanistan-american-imperialism-invasion-terrorism-bush-reagan-taliban
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"Both have been 'so widely misunderstood, so consistently scorned,' as Rees says of AOR but Smith could just as easily say of New Age."
Adam Sobsey reviews two books on New Age music and album-oriented rock: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/new-age-music-album-oriented-rock-rees-smith
@cadaverformosus.bsky.socialReposted by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialBumping this piece I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social not only because Vance is in the news, but because if you read it and listen to Marco Rubio's remarks in Athens, you will hear the higher pitch of dogwhistles.
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialThe scene is set; our 50th Quarterly is here! Now come celebrate the launch of Scene with us on October 10 at the Now Instant Bar and Bookstore.
Get tickets now: https://now-instant.la/events/larb-scene
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"Clearly, India’s Gen-Z ‘rudeness’ had not developed in a vacuum. This generation has been exposed to it for the past 12 years."
Zara Zaheer Chowdhary on how memes and curses fueled India’s protests: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cockroach-party-india-student-protests-narendra-modi-hindutva
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"Reading Anne Carson makes you want to hold your people close."
On Anne Carson's dialogue of grief: lareviewofbooks.org/article/talk...
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"Carson’s thematic range is matched by her ambitious, if occasionally eccentric, formal experimentation."
On Anne Carson's "Wrong Norma":
@brucelevenstein.bsky.socialReposted by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.socialThis is a very astute piece that will make you want to read both books.
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"The novel’s lively pastoral pushes the borders of world literature further and deeper, showing us a rural Ukrainian life unlike what we expected."
Josh Billings on "The Hamlet Called America": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hamlet-called-america-khrystia-vengryniuk-ukraine-pastoral-village
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"Black’s speakers are simultaneously brash, ever-willing to take on new identities, and disembodied, observing womanhood from the outside."
Yvonne Kim on Ellie Black's debut collection, "Revelator": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ellie-black-revelator-poetry-digital-internet-culture-femininity
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"In the same way that ballroom parodies authority, it also performs a critique of capitalism."
Armando Ledezma on voguing with the House of Ruber in Caracas, from our new issue Scene: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/caracas-ballroom-venezuela-queer-dance-scene-armando-ledezma/
