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Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Jonathan Foltz on “Twin Peaks: The Return.”| Los Angeles Review of Books
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The Great American Novel That Wasn’t| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Mark Fisher’s “The Weird and the Eerie” is a fitting tribute to an author who had the rare capacity to write lucidly about dark and difficult things.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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The LARB Quarterly no. 45, “Submission,” presents a new poem by Sawako Nakayasu.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Rhys Langston reports from Los Angeles.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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On Journey to the West, one of the masterworks of classical Chinese writing.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Althusser’s reading of Rousseau takes us to the very heart of questions on the management of our natural world in the age of the Anthropocene.| Los Angeles Review of Books
Gravestones in the Basement| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead" is a story about race. It’s about industry. It’s about being held accountable and the right to a safe workplace.| Los Angeles Review of Books
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“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables| Los Angeles Review of Books
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Federico Perelmuter considers László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769,” translated by Ottilie Mulzet.| Los Angeles Review of Books