Laura Marsh

New York

Literary Editor at The New Republic

Literary Editor at @NewRepublic

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Articles

Shared Delusions | Laura Marsh

3 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Laura Marsh

From the outlines of their plots Katie Kitamura’s novels could be mistaken for melodramas, or concepts for a bingeable TV series. In A Separation (2017) an estranged wife goes to Greece to reunite with her husband, only to discover that he’s been brutally murdered. In Intimacies (2021) an American woman finds herself serving as the mouthpiece for a war criminal when she is appointed as his interpreter at The Hague.
A Self Divided | Laura Marsh

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Laura Marsh

Thinking, and continuing to think for any length of time, is a peculiarly elusive activity. A vast self-help literature on how to focus and a suite of antidistraction devices, from Pomodoro timers to Freedom software that blocks the Internet, suggest that people would like to think deeply.
Moana's Canoe Crew (Disney Moana 2) by illustrated by the Disney Storybook Art Team, Rh Disney

Oct 17, 2024 | books.disney.com | Daka Hermon |Laura Marsh |Maya Myers |Allison Boss

This Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader is based on Disney Moana 2, releasing in theaters on November 27th, 2024!Walt Disney Animation Studios’ epic animated musical Moana 2 takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.
National Geographic Kids 5-Minute Dinosaur Stories

Aug 29, 2024 | books.disney.com | Laura Marsh |Moira Donohue |Maya Myers |Ruth A. Musgrave

Travel back in time to unlock the secrets of the dinosaurs with these 12 fascinating true tales of prehistoric life!Join National Geographic on an expedition into the past to explore kids’ favorite topic: dinosaurs! These dino-mite true tales are all the ideal length to be read aloud in five minutes, making them perfect for story time, bedtime, or anytime. In these pages, you’ll peer through the leafy prehistoric jungle and glimpse the amazing creatures that lived on Earth long before humans.
Weird But True World 2025

Aug 29, 2024 | books.disney.com | Moira Donohue |Laura Marsh |Maya Myers |Ruth A. Musgrave

The best-selling Weird But True! World returns for its third edition—weirder than ever and with tons of new, true, unbelievable oddities for 2025 … and beyond!Meet a chef who cooks pizza over an active volcano in Guatemala. Visit a bridge in Hungary that was repaired with LEGO bricks. And get to know the world’s smelliest frog. You’ll find all this and more inside this jam-packed compendium of weird wonders from all around the world.
Rachel Kushner’s Spy Games

Aug 27, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Laura Marsh

A young woman arrives at a run-down house in the French countryside. The house, at the end of a drive lined with poplar trees, belongs to her wealthy boyfriend. She has spent the last week loitering around a swimming pool and making trips to the beach, while he prepared to shoot a movie, a task that will keep him away for the next several weeks.
Reading Wars presented by The New York Review of Books

Sep 11, 2023 | brooklynbookfestival.org | Francine Prose |Laura Marsh |Julian Lucas |Daniel Mendelsohn

Reading and writing have rarely been as politicized in the US as they are today. While GOP governors and legislators enact bans on books and syllabuses they see as undermining core American values—targeting works that touch on race, gender, and sexuality—some on the Left have argued for purging syllabuses of once-canonical authors and even altering language in texts now perceived as insensitive to those same issues.
Naomi Klein’s Journey Into the Unnerving World of Naomi Wolf

Sep 4, 2023 | newrepublic.com | Laura Marsh

Torching your own reputation is usually a onetime engagement. Credibility is finite, and once it’s gone, there is not much left to burn. A reporter who got their sources mixed up once will surprise no one next time they bungle a story; a writer who spreads conspiracy theories is soon known as a crank. Those rules have somehow not held true for the writer Naomi Wolf. A notable feature of her career has been her ability to repeat the act of self-immolation over and over, singeing others along the way.
The Pregnancy Plot | Laura Marsh

Jun 29, 2023 | nybooks.com | Laura Marsh

In Reproduction, Louisa Hall combines a science-fiction riff on Frankenstein with the isolating reality of pregnancy in the contemporary United States.