LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue of LARB Quarterly, no 50: Scene, is here, featuring essays, poetry, fiction, excerpts, and a special bonus: one-act scenes.
Let’s Keep It for Ourselves
On ‘Unmuzzled OX’—a cult journal that seduced the best writers and artists in North America. Alex Kitnick
Everywhere and Nowhere All at Once
On Afghanistan, empire, and American amnesia on the 25th anniversary of the US invasion. Leila Christine Nadir
- Armando Ledezma writes on voguing with the House of Ruber in Caracas.
- Alex Kitnick profiles Unmuzzled OX, a cult journal that seduced the best writers and artists in America.
- Samuel Chu reports on Operation Yellowbird, the Umbrella Movement, and the dissidents of Hong Kong.
- Andie Eisen considers the women taking over the funeral industry.
- Jonah C. Sirott probes how the right stole the flying saucers and the Democrats lost the weirdos.
- Michel Chaouli reflects on the history—and pleasures—of traveling and reading.
- Essays by Amber Bal and Doyle D. Calhoun on a misunderstood masterpiece of African cinema, Rachel Cusk on the art of Joan Snyder, Issa Quincy on the 60th annual Angola Prison Rodeo, Yael Segalovitz on slumber, and Negar Azimi on Iranian art in the 2000s.
- Fiction by Ingeborg Bachmann (transl. Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis). Scenes by Maya C. Popa, Sophia Le Fraga, Yuri Herrera, Jason Porter, Brandon Harris, and Sarah Ruhl.
- I Come Here Often by Sarah Wang. Double Feature by Eugene Kotlyarenko. Poetry by Sara Eliza Johnson, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Jessica Fisher, Keith S. Wilson, Eileen G’Sell, Mary Jo Bang, and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva.
