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Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Three-quarter Moon (1989), stoneware, 17 × 21 1/2 inches, photo: Nicholas Knight. Courtesy The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum © Family of Toshiko Takaezu; Moon (1980s), stoneware, 13 × 13 1/2 inches © Family of Toshiko Takaezu
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In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” writer Rachel Cusk and filmmaker Ira Sachs discuss his new film “Passages,” his oeuvre, and the...
Ruth Joffre reviews Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark.”
Alice Courtright reviews Marie Howe’s “New and Selected Poems.”
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Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Sarah Yanni accounts for what she left behind when she called off her wedding—and what she...
Lydia Eno interviews Eileen Myles for the 30th anniversary of “Chelsea Girls.”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Pomerantsev’s “How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.”
Jamal Batts reviews Robeson Taj Frazier’s “KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell.”
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