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Laura Marsh

Laura Marsh is the literary editor of the New Republic. She has written for the New York Review of Books, Dissent, Bookforum, The Times Literary Supplement and Literary Review. Previously she was an editor at the New York Review of Books.

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August 28, 2024
MagazineLaura Marsh
Rachel Kushner’s Spy Games
In “Creation Lake,” a brilliant secret agent delights in her infiltration of a niche world of ideas.
September 5, 2023
MagazineLaura Marsh
Naomi Klein’s Journey Into the Unnerving World of Naomi Wolf
After years of being mistaken for one another, Klein tried to find out why Wolf went down the conspiracy rabbit hole—and why so many people have followed her.
June 18, 2021
Sarah Weinman, Corey Robin, Laura Marsh, Kyle Chayka
In the Malcolm Archives
Four writers reflect on the legacy of Janet Malcolm, who died this week at 86.
June 18, 2021
Laura Marsh
Moving to Janet Malcolm’s America
In unflinching prose, Malcolm described the ordinariness of American life and the erratic impulses beneath the surface.
March 22, 2021
Laura Marsh
Philip Roth’s Revenge Fantasy
The novelist wanted his biography to settle scores. It has badly backfired.
May 19, 2020
Laura Marsh
The Flawed Fantasy of a Different Hillary Clinton
Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel “Rodham” imagines an alternative world in which Hillary never marries Bill.
February 12, 2020
Laura Marsh
Infinite Jerk
Adrienne Miller’s memoir of her relationship with David Foster Wallace is part of an emerging genre of women coming of age via an older, powerful man.
October 27, 2016
MagazineLaura Marsh
The Flaws of the Overton Window Theory
How an obscure libertarian idea became the go-to explanation for this year’s crazy politics.
April 5, 2016
MagazineLaura Marsh
Vladimir Nabokov, Scientific Genius
He made thousands of obsessive drawings of butterflies—but do they help us read his novels?
December 28, 2015
MagazineLaura Marsh
The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books
These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.
December 17, 2015
Laura Marsh
Endorsement of the day: Putin deems Trump “unquestionably talented.”
December 9, 2015
Laura Marsh
The U.K. Parliament now has to consider a motion to “Block Donald J Trump from U.K. entry.”
December 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
Forget Moby-Dick marathons, Russia is reading War and Peace.
December 7, 2015
Laura Marsh
Another “great books” poll boringly confirms the dominance of Middlemarch.
December 3, 2015
Laura Marsh
Cannibal Cop is in fact not a cannibal, court rules.
November 24, 2015
Laura Marsh
Food, Interrupted
Bee Wilson's “First Bite” explores the roots of our disordered twenty-first century eating habits.
November 23, 2015
Laura Marsh
Freemasons open their archives and unleash a barrage of conspiracy theories.
July 21, 2015
Laura Marsh
Complicated Fame
Interest in Joan Didion's personal life—and her personal belongings—has become insatiable.
July 16, 2015
Laura Marsh
What's the Next 'Go Set a Watchman'?
The lost works of Joan Didion, Marilynne Robinson, and other great writers

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