Larissa Pham on Her New Novel, Discipline, and Finding Truth in Disaster
On the elasticity of art, the detritus of memory, and making the reader sweat
Larissa Pham’s new novel, Discipline (Random House, 2026), started out as something else entirely. “I was going to write ten really gnomic, mysterious meditations on American paintings,” she told me, as we chatted on a snowy day in January. “I have this whole fantasy of writing these weird meditations. And ...
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