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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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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 8, 2015
Laura Marsh
The Year in Literary Backlash
A guide to books the critics loved and hated in equal measure.
December 7, 2015
Laura Marsh
Another “great books” poll boringly confirms the dominance of Middlemarch.
December 7, 2015
Laura Marsh
Here’s why the White House needs 500 pounds of cookie dough.
December 3, 2015
Laura Marsh
Cannibal Cop is in fact not a cannibal, court rules.
November 25, 2015
Laura Marsh
After wondering if ISIS is "joyous," Joyce Carol Oates muses on North Korea.
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.
November 17, 2015
Laura Marsh
100,000 women between 18 and 49 in Texas have attempted to self-induce an abortion.
November 17, 2015
Laura Marsh
Reading Germaine Greer's 30,000-word love letter to Martin Amis is like finding out your high school teacher was into BDSM.
November 16, 2015
Laura Marsh
No, injustice wasn’t good for our careers, say Gloria Steinem and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
November 12, 2015
Laura Marsh
Even Charlotte Brontë can’t escape her embarrassing teenage poetry.
October 14, 2015
Laura Marsh, Esther Breger
Can a Pickup Artist Unlearn His Tricks?
An evening with the author of "The Game"—and his fans
September 21, 2015
Laura Marsh
The Scientific Art of the Perfect Meal
A new wave of food bloggers optimize our favorite recipes
August 6, 2015
Laura Marsh
Vacations with Marilyn, Dinner with Picasso
At 99, George Braziller surveys his publishing empire in a new memoir
July 31, 2015
Laura Marsh
What’s David Foster Wallace Doing in a Bromance Movie?
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
July 14, 2015
Laura Marsh
These Scholars Have Been Pointing Out Atticus Finch's Racism for Years

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