Katie Pruden reviews Grand Rapids, Natasha Stagg’s newest novel on teenagehood in Michigan and an "exercise in remembrance without nostalgia."

Texas State ordered by judge to continue paying Idris Robinson after he was fired for talk he gave in another state

Based on a real crime committed in a housing project outside Paris, this novel blurs the distinctions between fact and fiction, guilt and innocence, and…

Interview I did with Sylvère Lotringer in March 2009 in the Dean's office, Eugene Lang College, The New School. Photo of Sylv``ere by McKenzie Wark

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Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein talk with John Tottenham about his debut novel, “Service.”

Shulamith Firestone’s portraits of madness reveal a condition afflicting us all.

Pre-order: publishing November 2025 What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? Dorothea Lasky’s MEMORY is a cycle of poet’s essays ranging across three dimensions ...

Practitioners of the cut-up have long stitched superficially disparate literatures together, flattening differences and drawing out unexpected points of connection. Now, to the newspaper insertions of...

Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”

What if Airless Spaces, and the life of its author, cannot be read as a story at all?

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In “Service” by John Tottenham, a bookstore clerk struggles to write a novel that sounds a lot like “Service” by John Tottenham.

How the fuck did it come to this? A modest career on the lower slopes and outer fringes of journalism dried up when the frontiers of the internet opened up to people who were prepared, free of char…

SERVICE by John Tottenham Semiotext(e) May 6 th 2025 A book review by Alexander Laurence Service is the first novel by John Totten...

A grumpy bookshop employee’s musings, an investigation of parenthood in the digital age, and an essential history of OpenAI.

In Airless Spaces, the feminist theorist dramatizes what happens when capitalist alienation makes everybody miserable.

In Name, the third book in her acclaimed trilogy, Constance Debré recalls a chaotic childhood spent with drug addicted parents. Here, she talks about identity, autofiction, and her dislike of sentimen...

Syd Staiti

“When they met she was living in a large apartment in the rue Bonaparte, with the sister closest in age, the one who’s going to die of alcohol and pills.”

Franco “Bifo” Berardi A few days ago I received an invitation from an American association that invited me to take part in a convention to be held in Chicago in April. The theme of the …

[FREE TO READ] The author took longer to come out as working-class than as gay. His newly translated memoir confronts poverty and racism in the milieu he fled

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The author took longer to come out as working-class than as gay. His newly translated memoir confronts poverty and racism in the milieu he fled

Her fiction was miscast as merely transgressive. Rather, her novels were interested in understanding life in its most unvarnished and unmediated.