Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of documentarians around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York Times as “lazing out on the porch of a summer’s night and meditating to your favorite ball team.” For a printed version with photographs, please visit 978-0-9889831-6-8.
Marion Schneider interviews 25 women described by The Huffington Post as “a raw, sensual and multifarious view of [the] female orgasm … further eliminating the stigma and shame too often associated with the topic.”
The Digital Edition LARB Quarterly Journal epub is a selection of feature articles, poetry and shorts from the Los Angeles Review of Books's Quarterly Journal, curated by Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz.
The LARB Digital Edition epub is a selection of feature articles from the Los Angeles Review of Books's History section, personally curated by history editor Robert Zaretsky.
The LARB Digital Edition Comics epub is a selection of feature articles from the Los Angeles Review of Books's Comics section, personally curated by Comics editor Anne Elizabeth Moore.
The LARB Digital Edition Memoir epub is a selection of feature articles from the Los Angeles Review of Books's memoir and creative nonfiction section, personally curated by Creative Nonfiction editor Dinah Lenney.
It’s fall. Throughout the country, students are heading into classrooms where they will read and discuss books. There are ongoing questions about what use this reading will be to them. Indeed, will it be any use at all?The essays in this month's Digital Edition are purposefully quite wide-ranging in their subjects and tone. Books, they show, are different things for English professors, for economists, for artists; they help us grieve, and they help us grow. The essays here share a sense that books quite often solve problems very different from the ones they explicitly address. So rather than using books to simplify and reduce a complex world, as the criticism “book learning” might imply, these essays, together, advocate for a non-instrumental mode of reading. Read widely, they say, for a range of pleasures; read to enjoy the world, not to treat it as a problem to be solved.
We’re all prone to excess, even in discussions of excess, observes biologist and science writer Marlene Zuk. This year has been marked by another rainfall of books about humans destroying the environment in which they evolved, a few about the a priori Darwinian mismatch between humans and their so-called “natural” environments, and a great many more about the even greater mismatch between humans and their constructed environments.This month's Digital Edition gathers some of the best essays and reviews from LARB's Science Section that deal with aspects of the mismatch, and how scientific discoveries and agendas are changing how we think about them. Several also deal with issues of legibility — how science goes about making legible human experience, not to mention environmental impacts. From the exploding fields of neuroscience and genetics to reading the movement of glaciers, this month's selection of articles is the perfect match for readers in search of a legible science.
As National Poetry Month was just last April, it’s only fitting that we celebrate poetry this July. The poets in this collection represent the depth and breadth of contemporary American poetry: its independence, its drive to find new ways of making meaning, and its commitment to innovative ways of interrogating what we might consider foundational texts. In this new poetry ePub, we present two poets writing about Emily Dickinson, Stephen Burt’s groundbreaking essay on trans-poetry, Joshua Edwards's elegy to poetically seeing the landscapes around us, and original poetry by Douglas Kearney, Maurice Manning, and Lauren K Alleyne.
Does an academic boycott of Israel advance, or damage, the cause for peace in the Middle East?We brought together eight leading scholars to debate the question in an unprecedented forum, «Academic Activism: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Ethics of Boycott.» Collectively, their essays — equal parts incisive, provocative, and passionate — deliver a multifaceted lens through which to view the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) movement, and the ongoing search for a path towards peace.