LARB
Los Angeles Review of Books
REVIEWS
REVIEWS

Justice “Lite”: What Everyone Should Know about the Military CommissionsJetsam on the Terminal Beach: M. John Harrison's "Empty Space"All Clear Ahead: Muriel Rukeyser’s "Savage Coast"The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of GodAnswers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British DebutsDelusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic ManualThe Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange's "Angel Baby"A Transformed Legal Profession Faces the Future: Barry A. Sanders on “The Lawyer Bubble”The World’s Bloodiest Civil WarTesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich see all reviews »
ESSAYS
ESSAYS

You’ve Got the Wrong Song: ABC's "Nashville" and Country Music FeminismSyria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then FadingCarousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-haIf the SAT Were a Key to All MythologyHollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn'tConversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of LifeHurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and GreeceMarx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing ConsumerUntucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the HammerLetter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist StateDick Nixon, To Kick Around Evermore see all essays »
INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEWS

The "Who, What, and Why" Behind Guantánamo: An Interview with Jess Bravin[VIDEO] Margaret Atwood, "Positron"PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa HadleyJust This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"PODCAST #27: Colin Dickey[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives" see all interviews »
Contributors Authors Genres Events About LARB

Contributors

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAll
Rachel Galvin

Srinivas Gandhi

Matthew Gannon

Edgar Garcia

Bryan A. Garner

Roxane Gay

Ross Gay

Kaya Genç

Amy Gentry

Sarah Gerard

Hannah Gersen

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Panio Gianopoulos

Henry Giardina

PreviousFIRST1213141516171819202122232425262728LASTNext

Featured Essay

“The distinction between complex thinking and right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and the education of the rest.” "If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen

Video

MARGARET ATWOOD on her latest serial novel POSITRON

Audio

Podcast #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"

LARB on Twitter

Follow @LAReviewofBooks

   

Books

Emily Dickinson in Love
by John Evangelist Walsh


Sister Mine
by Nalo Hopkinson


Like A Virgin
by Aarathi Prasad


Authors

Jayne Cortez

... More


Percival Everett

"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More


Angilee Shah

... More


Genres

Nonfiction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

210 total reviews

Biography & Autobiography

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

77 total reviews

Literary Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

99 total reviews

DonationsBecome a Member Today
American Dream Machine
by Matthew Specktor


The Barbarian Nurseries
by Hector Tobar


The Book of Woe
by Gary Greenberg


Go to Books Archive
Jon Wiener

... More


Pico Iyer

... More


Charles Yu

... More


Go to Authors Archive
SF

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

80 total reviews

Film

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

27 total reviews

Music

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
... More

40 total reviews

Go to Genres Archive
© 2013 Los Angeles Review of Books | All Rights Reserved | Donate | Contact Us