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McCray on Wisnioski's "Every American an Innovator": "What hatched from all of these efforts [to create innovation labs in universities] was not so much commercial products but a robust conception of the entrepreneurial self."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-domination-to-derision/

Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …” | Los Angeles Review of Books Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”

A new poem of mine is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in the ALIEN edition. It's a part of a manuscript of ars poeticas I'm working on. Thank you to everyone at LARB. This poem is for my friend Dante Di Stefano.

Crisis Makes Weird | Los Angeles Review of Books Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.

Why are Greek movies so strange? It turns out they've been "weird" for a while, and not for the reasons you might think. My latest essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #film #architecture lareviewofbooks.org/article/cris...

Thank you to the fabulous @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for this Q&A on my new book, JUST PILLS, chronicling the extraordinary history of abortion pills—and of feminist networks putting these pills into women's hands despite the odds!
lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...

"A social order capable of rational management of de-extinction practices would arguably be rational enough to never produce a situation where de-extinction emerges as a desired possibility." Karoline Huber on Colossal and "de-extinction." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/colossal-biosciences/

"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

"The story of abortion has always been about politics, not science, which in the U.S. has repeatedly tried to impede access to abortion pills." @jlloydgeorge.bksy.social interviews Rebecca Keliher about her new book "Just Pills." lareviewofbooks.org/article/pills-have-legs/

"The trajectory of intelligent life on this planet can be described as an evolution of its verbs: to move, to reproduce, to use, to think." Patrick House writes about what might constitute the difference between artificial and natural intelligence. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-isnt-intelligence/

John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”: “Kosky engages a remarkable range of texts and images in an extended, learned, and deeply personal meditation.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heart-of-the-matter/

Kurt Guldentops and Sungshin Kim review Bora Chung’s “Red Sword”: “Chung’s ability to insert the emotional register of popular activism into a narrative adopted from a traditional military chronicle might surprise readers.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/memory-dismembered/

"From Guangdong to Green Bay, how and why people work are less different than it might initially seem." Martin Dolan reviews Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/common-roots/

In her featured story for LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien, Ari Braverman captures exile and taut relationships of the domestic world: "She was her Mother’s creature, all the way through." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dogs-of-the-solar-steppe/

“Kafka’s picaresque story is built on the premise that dogs cannot see humans—their food is delivered by invisible hands. ” Isabel Jacobs considers Aaron Schuster’s "How to Research Like a Dog." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dogito-ergo-sum/

How do we begin to combat the war against the humanities? Sanchez Prado insists that developing a universal and popular understanding of just what the humanities are is key, and professors are on the front lines.

“The war on the humanities and the war on DEI are the same project,” Sanchez Prado writes, drawing attention to the potential of certain humanities subsets to make disenfranchised students feel like their cultures are worthy of study and respect.

In a call for solidarity among other areas of study in the university, Sánchez Prado wisely predicts that “enemies of the university” will not stop their tirade with just the humanities: research in all fields is undoubtedly at risk.

Despite the "pearl clutching" popular sense of peril surrounding the death of the English major, Sánchez Prado dispels the attack on the English department as a dramatization distracting us from the very real threat of extinction many foreign language programs face.

Sánchez Prado holds nothing back, denouncing the “dumbfounding clichés and stereotypes” present in the of current discourse surrounding the value of the humanities, both from “weird and salacious” publications and “deeply inaccurate and misguided” academics.

Who's at fault for the modern attack on the humanities? In “The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For,” author Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado challenges academics and non-academics to rethink the unique utopian value of the humanities. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-humanities-are-worth-fighting-for/

In this week's special episode of #LARBRadioHour, Chris Kraus joins Kate Wolf to talk about her new novel, "The Four Spent the Day Together." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/chris-krauss-the-four-spent-the-day-together/

Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.” Read her poem, "Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …" and others by getting your copy today! https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

"Their practice encompasses architecture and performance, training their sights on the conventions and ideas that shape everyday life." Michael Kurcfeld interviews Elmgreen & Dragset about "The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" at Pace Gallery in LA. https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/double-vision-[video]/

Oliver Evans reviews "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood, USA" by Will Sloan: "The worst film by Ed Wood is more interesting than the best film by Ron Howard, Sloan argues, which is admittedly a checkmate."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/

Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: Alien. Get your issue today! https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

"Wade pays particular attention to the ways Stein’s writing and her intimate life with Toklas intertwine." Jacquelyn Ardam on Francesca Wade’s "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange/

Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages in his poem, "Adams" from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.” Get your issue today. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel "Shadow Ticket": "If 'Shadow Ticket' turns out to be Pynchon’s final voyage, it’s hard to imagine one more poignant." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/good-night-and-good-luck/

"Sometimes these women shed their pelts in some secret place / To become human women again."

Read more of "The Dog" by aracelis girmay, from LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-aracelis-girmays-the-dog/

"There are metaphors that we live by, but there are also narratives that we live within." Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of "The Neural Mind: How Brains Think."

“I’ll say, Hello, Alien. Thank you for your love. I am literally / a mess here. An expanded sense of life kicks in when one meets / someone fatally connected to oneself. Timothy Donnelly's poem for LARB Quarterly no. 46: "Alien." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/timothy-donnellys-to-the-alien/