Trauma!

LARB Radio Hour by Medaya Ocher

Oct 2, 202647:45Arts

In this special chat episode, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman, and Kate Wolf use Catherine Liu's new book Traumatized to dive into the political uses and pitfalls of trauma. Liu argues that the elite professional class has ful...

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