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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.
March 21, 2017
Laura Marsh
More than Magic: the Legacy of Robert Silvers
The editor of the 'New York Review of Books' championed the life of the mind.
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.
September 6, 2016
Laura Marsh
In Praise of Pamela Adlon
'Better Things,' her new show with Louis C.K., finally puts Adlon in the lead with this female-led autobiographical comedy.
August 30, 2016
Laura Marsh
The Myth of the Millennial as Cultural Rebel
We have two popular historians to blame for our profound misunderstanding of young people’s lifestyle choices.
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?
February 16, 2016
Laura Marsh
Hilarious TV show idea: Man takes girly job as social media editor.
February 16, 2016
Laura Marsh
Just call Daniel Craig Double-Oh-Franzen.
February 16, 2016
Laura Marsh
Thomas Piketty explains why Bernie Sanders has the edge, even if he doesn’t win in 2016.
February 16, 2016
Laura Marsh
Music that Mozart wrote with Salieri has been found in a Czech museum.
February 13, 2016
Laura Marsh
What does Justice Scalia’s death mean for the Supreme Court?
February 10, 2016
Laura Marsh
With no mansion and no nudes, Hugh Hefner’s son thinks “what’s happening at Playboy is sad.”
February 8, 2016
Laura Marsh
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Bishop!
February 8, 2016
Laura Marsh
Hae Min Lee’s family reminds us the Serial case is real life.

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