Los Angeles Review of Books

Lights up. Scene on.

Our 50th issue of the LARB Quarterly, Scene, is out now! Take centerstage with fiction, essays, and poetry from Rachel Cusk, Samuel Chu, Maya C. Popa, Sarah Ruhl, and more. Get your copy today.

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"Male doctors may have been studying the brain in the lab for centuries, but it is women who, in theory and practice, gave Freud his body of work."

Eliana Rozinov reviews "The Only Cure" by Mark Solms: lareviewofbooks.org/article/only-c…

"As with many of Tanizaki’s perceptions, it wouldn’t do to take this at face value."

Colin Marshall on the work of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, and the "In Praise of Shadows" translations: lareviewofbooks.org/article/junich…

"The disproportion between the brevity of her life and the scale of that great, unfathomable work has made her one of literature’s most beguiling apparitions."

Anna Ballan on Deborah Lutz's Emily Brontë biography: lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-d…

"I went looking for little green men because I was exhausted by the large orange one."

Jonah C. Sirott on how the Right stole the flying saucers and the Democrats lost the weirdos: lareviewofbooks.org/article/ufo-di…