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“Gifts, even gifts of love, bring with them an implied demand for reciprocity that we may not be able to fulfill.” Daniel Grubbs-Donovan reviews Hanne Ørstavik's "Stay with Me." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heart-keeps-on/

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“‘Woodworking’ doesn’t offer easy lessons. Ugliness and hate rub shoulders with glimpses of freedom, growth, and transformation.” @lorimarso.bsky.social ‬reviews Emily St. James’s “Woodworking.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trans-women-in-the-heartland/

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Cruel, relentless, eager, functional: this summer, we’re taking submission as an act just as harmonious as it is coercive. Submission reminds you that nothing is yours—but this issue can be. Join now to get it this July. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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"As readers, we’re wired for some kind of resolution. We’re wired to look for patterns, so I think we gently need to remind ourselves that these are not the only patterns." Akanksha Singh and Jonas Hassen Khemiri talk "The Sisters." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-story-needs-to-shake-you-up/

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"There’s a new sort of person emerging we haven’t seen before. You could call it the tech bro who is obsessed with code." Holiday Dmitri interviews Mars Review founder Noah Kumin on his first novel, "Stop All the Clocks." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-novel-as-revolutionary-instrument/

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Putting your life into words is no easy feat. Join Nadja Spiegelman for her workshop, “Writing About Your Life,” teaching memoirists and essayists alike translate their lives into rich literary tapestries. https://lareviewofbooks.org/event/writing-about-your-life/

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Anna Marie Cain interviews Karen Russell about her latest novel: "'The Antidote' uses the darker parts of our country’s history as the foundation to revisit conversations that continue to be bleached by white-washing." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rehearsing-for-the-apocalypse/

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"In this scenario, exposing an elite school’s inadvertent facilitation of pedophilia provides the arriviste detective with an affective reward that is as classist as it is libidinal." Harry Stecopoulos on Joyce Carol Oates’s “Fox.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-hidden-injuries-of-class/

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On this double pride month episode of #LARBRadioHour, Vince Aletti and Mike Todd join to discuss their respective new books, "Physique" and "The Lilac People." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pride-month-featuring-vince-aletti-and-milo-todd/

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While Dave Eggers is known for his writing, fewer are familiar with his roots as a visual artist. We’re thrilled to offer prints from his first-ever collection of drawings: witty, minimal, and unmistakably Eggers. Available now in the LARB shop: https://shop.lareviewofbooks.org/

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Gaming Democracy is described as "the book about Gamergate we have been waiting for" in this @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social roundup of new scholarship about the alt-right. I am thrilled to be in such good company with some scholars who I very much admire.

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“…our supposed opposition party, the Democrats, have helped fund, maintain, and oil the engines of the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, while posing teary-eyed beside kids in cages.” Essential reading

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"I found myself in the snare of the great American vanity project known as liberalism." Rhys Langston reports from Los Angeles amidst the protests and ICE raids. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-week-occupied-by-ice-or-how-close-does-the-violence-become/

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"It is part of Vaginov’s comic genius that even the most visionary moments don’t seem to be taking themselves completely seriously." Josh Billings reviews Russian author Konstantin Vaginov’s newly translated novel “Goat Song.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-superfluous-man-redux/

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Excellent piece by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on a core ideology that drives the alt-right -- the manufactured belief that their promised futures have been snatched away -- feeding their malignant/tech-fash efforts to claw back the future for the chosen (white, male, elite) people. Worth a read!

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wonderful review of Endgame by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/cons...

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"Throughout 'Notes,' we see Didion’s baggage discovered where Freudians are wont to seek it: in childhood, and in the defense mechanisms, fantasies, and anxieties developed therein." Noah Rawlings on Joan Didion’s “Notes to John.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/first-thought-not-best-thought/

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“As Merchant makes so startlingly clear, there will be a tipping point, a reckoning, a break, an ultimate end, and it may not be that far off." @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews “Endgame.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/conspiracism-nationalism-decline/

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What are the stories you need to tell? In this 6-week workshop with Nadja Spiegelman, we'll move from the mechanics of the craft to the questions of which stories we own, and why, and what it means to write about the people we love. https://lareviewofbooks.org/event/writing-about-your-life/

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Join the LARB Book Club in reading Professor Sebastian Castillo's "Fresh, Green Life" this summer!

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Good news: Dave Eggers’s prints are officially on sale now for all. Intimate and disarming, absurd and appealing, this collection of line drawings depicts unusual mammals with slogans that range from ancient, to heroic, to just plain odd. https://shop.lareviewofbooks.org/

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The current situation in Los Angeles and in the country at large is an ongoing constitutional crisis, but it’s also more fundamental than that. In the face of brutality and aggression, protest is the least we owe each other.

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“A more utopian world will be realized through a process of inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian imagination—or it will not be realized at all.” Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social

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"Silicon Valley’s brightest see a world where the tech bubbles are about to burst & they need the Trumpist state to invest in their products and services...Reactionary futurism can therefore be understood as a form of hype...promising a bold future of innovation and superprofits.” On technofascism.

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Fascinating interview with the great artist @LilianeLijn.bsky.social by @abigailsusik.bsky.social about Lijn’s work and her remarkable memoir LIQUID REFLECTIONS in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social - do read. Lijn’s major show Arise Alive is at Tate St Ives until Nov lareviewofbooks.org/article/lady...

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For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant @ferrifrigida.bsky.social about her new book, Out There in the Dark, about film and perspective and truth and fiction: lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-t...

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"I think that there can be great truth in stuff that’s obvious fiction." Ilana Masad interviews Katharine Coldiron about her collection of essays, “Out There in the Dark.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-theres-truth-in-cinema-its-sideways/

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"Sometimes I feel the writing takes me to places I never imagined. It’s as if the story was deciding things for me, as if it had a will and a life of its own." Radha Vatsal speaks with Guadalupe Nettel about "The Accidentals." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-characters-yearn-for-connection/

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This summer, we’re giving ourselves over—LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission is coming soon. With essays, fiction, & poetry from Tal Rosenberg, @alexanderchee.bsky.social, Emmeline Clein, & more, “Submission” parses the difference between giving in & giving up. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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Just dropped: prints from the Dave Eggers’s first collection of line drawings, “It is Right to Draw Their Fur.” Starting tomorrow, prints will be available to the public; a cast of curious creatures and strange slogans awaits. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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Pleased to have been invited by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social to review Boris Fishman's latest, The Unwanted — an allegory about complicity that feels particularly relevant right now. lareviewofbooks.org/article/comp...

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"From ages one to five, all of my birthdays and hide and seek would happen in the cemetery." Nik Slackman speaks with Taylor Lewandowski and Lynne Tillman about “The Mystery of Perception.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-matter-how-much-we-look-we-dont-necessarily-see/

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"In 'The Möbius Book,' Lacey casts herself as an object of projection and analyzes her shifting responses to the fictions others make for her." Jon Repetti reviews Catherine Lacey’s new novel. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/autofictions-primal-scene/

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"How far will you go along, as the Reich marches from sadistic to unspeakable? What will you compromise, sacrifice, and pretend not to know, for the sake of making art?" ‪@kaimaristed.bsky.social‬ reviews Daniel Kehlmann’s "The Director." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/making-art-under-fascism/

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(1/3) We’re proud to spotlight "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" by Tom Lutz, award-winning cultural critic, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Riverside, and founder of @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. #TomLutz #1925ALiteraryEnclopedia #LiteraryHistory

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My review of @sgj.bsky.social's 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,' is up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. It confronts the haunting specter of American genocide through the vampire tale, charting the depths of trauma & vengeance in the wake of the Marias Massacre. lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...

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I wrote a retrospective on futurism and the far right from 2024 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. This includes not only a review of recent scholarship but also new directions in my own work on this subject.

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Leading Stephen Graham Jones scholar @billyjstratton.bsky.social has a review of @sgj.bsky.social's groundbreaking novel THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER on @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, bringing his unique literary & historical perspective. A must-read for SGJ fans! lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...

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"What unites these people together is their belief that radical subversives and racialized outsiders have robbed them of a future." @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on recent scholarship on the alt-right. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reactionary-futurism-2025/

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"The protagonist of 'The Unwanted' is a professor who debases himself by agreeing to teach the poetry of the dominant sect." @mdlaplante.bsky.social on the perils of complicity in Boris Fishman’s newest. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/complicity-becomes-us/

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"The New York Times cannot say that Trump is a fascist because 'we may lose our readers.' Everything, apparently, is based on the business model." ‪@natashalennard.bsky.social‬ speaks with Rob Riemen. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-eternal-return-of-fascism-a-conversation-with-rob-riemen/

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In The Art of the Review, we’ll go beyond the puff piece and the pan to consider what book reviews are—or ought to be—for. Join writer, critic, and academic Katie Kadue for a 6-week workshop breaking down the art of the book review. https://lareviewofbooks.org/event/the-art-of-the-review/

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"That’s what form is: the changes in whatever material you observe." @abigailsusik.bsky.social speaks with Liliane Lijn about her new memoir. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lady-of-the-wild-things/

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“A harrowing story of loss and vengeance, confession and absolution.” @billyjstratton.bsky.social reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-can-you-stop-a-country-from-happening/

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“Hatred may burn at the corners of his narratives, but at the core is always the persistence of love.” Danielle Chelosky reviews Michel Houellebecq’s “Annihilation,” translated by Shaun Whiteside. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/it-turns-out-he-has-a-heart/

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