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Los Angeles Review of Books
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Nobody, Falling Through the Darkness

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (200+ words) Switzy by Emma Cline. Random House, 2026. 352 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org When he and Cody meet with Anna Gould (or “Ghoul,” as David refers to her almost exclusively), an official in Switzerland who seeks to ensure that he still wants…...

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Toppling the Deportation Regime

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (181+ words) How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by John Washington. Haymarket Books, 2026. 272 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org At a moment when every branch of the federal government has been captured by authoritarian forces, the movement…...

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Have Moviegoers Been Suckered?

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (522+ words) A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History by David Thomson. Simon & Schuster, 2026. 368 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Now Thomson reports immense regret. If you had to cite a weakness, Thomson tends to favor style over content. He writes in…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > did-you-find-everything-donna-masini-poetry-death

Sleight-of-Hand Soul

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (480+ words) Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? by Donna Masini. W. W. Norton & Company, 2026. 112 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org “DID YOU FIND EVERYTHING you were looking for?” is the familiar question big-box store cashiers are trained to ask customers at checkout....

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We Can Answer for Ourselves

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (123+ words) Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans by Susan Eva O’Donovan. Penguin Press, 2026. 384 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Joshua D. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author, most recently, of…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > constitution-comprehensive-annotated-guide-melissa-murray-amendments-rights

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Constitution but Were Afraid to Ask

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (208+ words) The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader by Melissa Murray. 37 Ink, 2026. 352 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org The part of the Constitution that Americans probably know best, the Preamble, begins: As Murray methodically analyzes each provision of…...

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To Be Femme

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (366+ words) Lipstick by Eileen G’Sell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 200 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe by Sophie Lewis. Haymarket Books, 2026. 346 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org This ugly, dangerous spectacle was topped off by…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > self-sabotage-todd-mcgowan-freud-death-drive-pleasure

How to Lose More Slowly

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (119+ words) Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish by Todd McGowan. Polity, 2026. 144 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Kyle Sossamon is a PhD candidate in art history at Binghamton University. His essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Afterimage, Critical…...

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A Book of Hags

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1316+ words) Riverwork by Lisa Robertson. Coach House Books, 2026. 240 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Riverwork marked my own introduction to Robertson’s work. In January 2026, it slipped from a pile of ARCs in Loganberry Books’ staff break room. I picked it up and…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > microcollege-movement-liberal-arts-deep-springs-sheldon-jackson

An Alternative Future for Struggling Colleges

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) Last May, Outer Coast graduated its first class of students. Sheldon Jackson College stands at the beginning of a wave of closures and mergers in American higher education. Between 2008 and 2026, nearly 200 nonprofit colleges and universities closed their doors, with 16 institutions…...