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Los Angeles Review of Books
lareviewofbooks.org > article > psychoanalysis-therapy-freud-cbt-desire-depression-affective-neuroscience

Therapy Used to Be Hot

19+ hour, 4+ min ago   (389+ words) And both struggle profoundly when I ask them: “What do you want?” Not what they feel they should want, and not what they want to be more like—but what they, themselves, desire from the world? Session after session, they…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > emma-cline-switzy-alzheimers-assisted-suicide-business-class

Nobody, Falling Through the Darkness

3+ day, 23+ 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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Danger and Doikayt in the Time of Revolution

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (138+ words) Radiant as the Stars by Elaine Elinson. Sibylline Press, 2026. 346 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Radiant as the Stars is a work that honors a woman’s fascinating life, paying homage to female activism and resilience, and preserves the memory of a…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > john-washington-how-close-camp-ice-detention-resistance

Toppling the Deportation Regime

2+ week, 1+ 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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lareviewofbooks.org > article > david-thomson-sudden-flicker-light-film-history-revisionist

Have Moviegoers Been Suckered?

2+ week, 4+ 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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lareviewofbooks.org > article > moving-toward-freedom-susan-eva-odonovan-slavery-politics

We Can Answer for Ourselves

2+ week, 5+ 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 > one-night-only-fascist-sex-dystopia-rom-com

Compliance, a Love Story

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (584+ words) No glove, no love—famously the slogan of right-wing absolutists. (Can trans kids go to the bathroom in this future?) The opening title card glibly frames our slide into fascist bio-policing: “It’s been a lot.” Those who have the luxury…...

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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

2+ week, 6+ day 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, 19+ hour 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…...