Erik Davis on the Art of LSD
Erik Davis joins Kate Wolf to speak about his latest book, “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.”
Erik Davis joins Kate Wolf to speak about his latest book, “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.”
Images from Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez’s The Anchor in the Landscape (MACK, 2024). Courtesy of the artists’ and MACK.
Evan Selinger reviews Hilke Schellmann’s “The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back...
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From underneath a sleeping baby, Nada Alic offers a dispatch “from the first draft of motherhood,” in an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth.”
Brendan Boyle considers Bertrand Bonello’s 2023 film “The Beast.”
“Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color is a sumptuous novel that captures the class, guilt, art, sex, and politics of 1950s Los Angeles” –Mark Haber.
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Erik Davis joins Kate Wolf to speak about his latest book, “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.”
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Cinque Henderson writes a personal tribute for Helen Vendler.
Kenneth Dillon reviews Becca Rothfeld’s “All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess.”
For AAPI month, Rajpreet Heir writes about the creative guidance she’s found in memoirs by AAPI authors.
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Chloe Martinez presents a new poem about what happened, what could have happened, and why it all...
Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics review Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919–1958.”
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Erik Davis joins Kate Wolf to speak about his latest book, “Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.”
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