LARB Quarterly Journal
LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 24, Weather

LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 24, Weather

Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 101

ESSAYS: Amy LeachAisha Sabatini SloanClaire McEachernRoger S. GottliebCarolina De RobertisGeoff Nicholson, Maud Doyle, J.D. Daniels, Peter Lunenfeld

FICTION: Jason Porter, Ellie Robins, Janet Sarbanes, Molly Prentiss

POETRY: Camille Dungy, Timothy Liu, Edgar Kunz, Matthew Zapruder, Malcolm Tariq, Michelle Dominique Burk, A.H. Jerriod Avant

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LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 23, Imitation Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 23, Imitation Issue

Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 102
ESSAYS: Claire L. Evans, Paul Chan, Donald D. Hoffman, Anjum Hasan, Savannah Knoop, R. Jay Magill Jr. FICTION: Jacob Rubin, Jessica Shabin, Hiromi Kawakami, Hyatt BassPOETRY: Arthur Sze, Maya C. Popa, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Jenny George, Dora Malech

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LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 22, Occult Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 22, Occult Issue

Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 103

ESSAYS: Colin Dickey, Anna Journey, Anna Merlan, Sarah Moss, Emily Ogden, Adam Morris

FICTION: Kathryn Davis, Masande Ntshanga, Keziah Weir, Paul LaFarge

POETRY: William Brewer, Elisabeth Houston, Brenda Hillman, Matt Morton, Javier Zamora, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

ALSO FEATURING: Kristen Arnett, Dodie Bellamy, Fernando A. Flores, Maya Gurantz, Zoe Tuck, Aaron Winslow

 

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LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 21, Epistolary Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 21, Epistolary Issue

Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 104

ESSAYS: Hanif Abdurraqib, Caio Fernando Abreu, Katya Apekina, Juliana Chow, Michael Donkor, Nathan Goldman, Kim Hayden, Rachel Scarborough King, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Gillian Osborne, Julie Schumacher, Julietta Singh

FICTION: Halle Butler, Sara Davis, Shiv Kotecha

POETRY: Molly McCully Brown, Cortney Charleston,  Airea D Matthews, Maureen McLane, Susannah Nevison, Matthew Olzmann, Charif Shanahan, Analicia Sotelo, Cecelia Woloch, Stella Wong

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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 20: Childhood Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 20: Childhood Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 105

Dear Reader,

I have no nostalgia for my childhood. I don’t remember it well — maybe less than I should — and I don’t miss it or long for it. I am in fact, grateful it’s over, as I don’t recall it being particularly fun or easy. As far as I can tell, childhood is a pretty scary time, with little control over your life, little understanding of what’s happening and why, and much to be afraid of (both real and unreal terrors).

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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 19: Romance Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 19: Romance Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 106

Dear Reader,

Let’s start with a love story. A few years ago, Rose, my partner’s 97 year old grandmother, met a man named Hardy in her retirement home. This may be apocryphal, but I heard that Hardy saw Rose walking in the courtyard and thought, “That is a nice lady.” This is the part I’ve always loved because Rose walks very slowly and with difficulty, usually with a walker. He was completely right — she is a very nice lady — and they have been inseparable ever since. Rose and Hardy exercise together in the mornings; they watch movies in the evenings. Hardy has proposed to Rose though she doesn’t want to get married because of the hassle. Hardy is in his early 90’s, which makes him a younger man. The last time I saw Rose, she said to me incredulously, “I never thought I would meet the love of my life in my 90’s!” (Never mind that Rose had three children with her late husband — he was obviously not the one.) Hardy and Rose have been the King and Queen of their local Mardi Gras celebration for three years in a row.

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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 18: Genius Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 18: Genius Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 107

Dear Reader,

I sometimes imagine genius as a very fast moving body of water. People naturally slip in and out but it’s impossible to jump in. Or it’s like living in a house, where I’m generally free to wander at will, but the upper floors are boarded up. I know there are people up there, I can hear them, but who knows how they got upstairs, it looks pretty locked to me. This isn’t something to take personally — you either have access or you don’t. And besides, I can’t think of a more appropriate application for that Groucho Marx quote: genius is exactly the kind of club I would resign from if it ever accepted a person like me as a member.

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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 17: Comedy Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 17: Comedy Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 108

Dear Reader,

We went back and forth about whether this should be the “Comedy” or the “Humor” issue and eventually, as you can see, landed on the former. Comedy, after all, has connotations that humor doesn’t have. It implies a certain professionalism — it can of course, be a job and a big job at that; it also has an implicit goal. Comedy is meant to be funny or entertaining. Comedy also evokes its opposite — tragedy — and, in that evocation, lets its audience hope for a happy ending. It goes beyond something as amorphous as a sense. A sense of humor is certainly a good thing to have, more people should consider acquiring one, but right now the concrete seems more interesting. If humor is tragedy plus time, then comedy is humor plus politics, plus current events, plus social and economic circumstances. Comedy is humor plus the business of the world.

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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 16 Art Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 16 Art Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 109

Dear Reader,

The worlds of art and writing have always been close — friendly at some moments, suspicious and derisive at others. They have met and interacted for many years, mostly through the work of the stricken souls who travel in between, spending time in both places, trying to describe and explain one to the other. This is a difficult task, as bridging worlds usually is. They’ve been traveling for many years, since Samuel Richardson and Tristram Shandy, Baudelaire and Picasso, and yet, despite the years, the task remains just as difficult as it always was.

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LARB Quarterly Journal Summer 2017 No. 15: Revolution Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal Summer 2017 No. 15: Revolution Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 110

Dear Reader,

Perhaps we are in a revolution and perhaps we are not. It is sometimes hard to tell. Of course, that can’t always be the case, especially in revolutions that are full of violence or bloodshed, but there must be revolutions that we don’t see or don’t notice or don’t totally acknowledge. Or on the flip side, there are events that we are too quick to call by that name, when actually they aren’t really anything at all, except steps in a long and drawn out series of accidents.

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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 14: Legal Affairs Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 14: Legal Affairs Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 111
This special issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal is dedicated to some of the best pieces that have appeared in our Legal Affairs section throughout the years. Helmed by Don Franzen, the section has published some of the most prominent contemporary thinkers and practitioners of law in the United States, hosting discussions of the many difficult legal questions we face nationally and globally. You will see here critical and personal considerations around human rights, incarceration, and free speech, as well as a thorough look at the issues facing the Constitution, ranging from the language on the page to the prison we still maintain in Cuba.
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LARB Quarterly Journal No. 13: Fiction Issue

LARB Quarterly Journal No. 13: Fiction Issue

Author: Tom Lutz
Series: LARB Quarterly Journal, Book 112
The new issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal is dedicated to Fiction and the contemporary state of the fiction world.
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