Death by Optimization
How healthcare apps and platforms distance us from care.
Hilary C. RobinsonMar 18
- Science & Technology
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Nature Morte, 1982–1988
Nature Morte, 1982–1988 is the first survey exhibition dedicated to the influential East Village gallery Nature Morte currently showing at Ehrlich Steinberg in Los Angeles.
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Ladies Who Still Lunch
The new posthumous gathering of Lore Segal’s final stories is a wise and funny tribute to the power of friendship.
Na’amit Sturm NagelMar 17
- Fiction
Small Creatures Such as We
Fatima Bhutto discusses her new memoir, which investigates an abusive human relationship and a sustaining nonhuman one.
Cara BensonMar 17
- Memoir & Essay
Different, Deadly Games
With the American-Israeli assault on Iran, the die is cast.
Hamid DabashiMar 16
- Politics
Empty Hiss
The short story form is an uneasy vessel for Helen Garner’s particular intensity.
Max CallimanopulosMar 16
- Fiction
Untidy Feminist Entanglements
In the 13th essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Margaret R. Eby shows how, during feminism’s first wave, white women physicians became the unlikely standard-bearers of eugenics.
Margaret R. EbyMar 15

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Naming the Unknown: A LARB Editor's Salon
Join us on March 26 at 7 p.m. at the Wende Museum as writers Dashiel Carrera, Gideon Jacobs, Jonathan Blake, and the artists behind the Bureau of Lingusitical Reality, Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott, explore how language evolves to name and make sense of a rapidly changing world.
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Vigdis Hjorth's 'Repetition'
Vigdis Hjorth joins the podcast to talk about about her latest novel, 'Repetition'
LARB Radio HourMar 6
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THE ROAD AHEAD
Iranians Don’t Need to Prove Their Revolution to You
The uprising in Iran isn’t only against armed oppression; it’s also over narrative.
Sahar DelijaniFeb 1
- Politics
- History
COLOR OF THE YEAR?
Mama Don’t Take My Chromophobia Away
Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is selling us a white fantasy.
Lida Zeitlin-WuFeb 4
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies

A Romance You Watch in Secret
The Russian-language reception of Crave’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how tenderness, desire, and character complexity shape a phenomenon that transcends borders.
Olga NechaevaMar 14
Longing for Moor
Emerald Fennell’s sexed-up take on Emily Brontë’s gothic romance feels empty.
Eric NewmanMar 14
- Film
- Fiction
LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2026 Oscars Preview
Film Comment and LARB editors discuss Oscars 2026, including their personal favorites, film themes of the year, and more
LARB Radio HourMar 13
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To Be, or Not to Be, Misunderstood
The most famous line in literature doesn’t mean what ‘Hamnet’ thinks it means.
Robert N. WatsonMar 13
- Film
- Literary Criticism

SILVER SCREEN
The End of Cinema?
Amid cinema’s decline, two new books by A. S. Hamrah resist defeatism.
Georgie CarrFeb 15
- Film
BETA MODE
Making a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence
Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.
Dashiel Carrera, Katy Gero, Christian Bök, Nick Montfort, Amy CatanzanoFeb 14
- Science & Technology
- Literary Criticism
THE INDUSTRY
A Cyberpunk Blueprint for Hollywood’s AI Dreams
Revisiting Pat Cadigan’s 1991 novel “Synners” in light of dystopian developments in Los Angeles.
Jeff HewittFeb 12
- SF
- Film
ETERNAL SUNSHINE
The End of Psychiatry (Kind Of)
Neurologist Pria Anand lauds Khameer Kidia’s new dissection of Western psychiatric imperialism.
Pria AnandFeb 3
- Science & Technology
- Cultural Studies

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Prestige Fiction Is Dead
Evan Brier’s recent book conducts a depressing literary autopsy, complete with case studies.
Dennis Wilson WiseMar 12
Big Men and Little People
Two recent books on Idi Amin’s Uganda present an African mirror for Trump’s United States to see itself.
Samuel Fury Childs DalyMar 12
- History
- Politics
This Is My War
On Iran, the experience of home, and a conflict that is ‘doubly mine.’
Hooman MajdMar 11
- Politics
- Cultural Studies
Lip-Synching the Revolution
Fighting about art and identity, again.
Bradley WesterMar 11
- Art & Architecture
The Eagle and the Lion
An exhibition charts the ties between East Asia and Latin America, from the colonial era to the new Cold War.
Tim BrinkhofMar 10

Prestige Fiction Is Dead
Dennis Wilson WiseMar 12
To Be, or Not to Be, Misunderstood
Robert N. WatsonMar 13
This Is My War
Hooman MajdMar 11
A Romance You Watch in Secret
Olga NechaevaMar 14
Lip-Synching the Revolution
Bradley WesterMar 11
Finding Our God-Terms
Joshua HallMar 2
Don’t Close Your Teeth
Cynthia ZarinNov 17, 2025
Big Men and Little People
Samuel Fury Childs DalyMar 12

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You Say You Want a Revolution
Should historians look at violent revolutions with rose-colored glasses while vindicating the terror that carried them forth?
Jack JacobsFeb 19
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Social Mobility and Stagnation
How the university entrance exam and residency permits structure life for in China.
Susan Blumberg-KasonFeb 16
- Cultural Studies
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Incredible Prophecies, Sick Truths
Oedipal iterations, from Sophocles to Arundhati Roy.
Ankhi MukherjeeFeb 6
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Have Democrats Learned Anything?
Was Nevada Democrat Harry Reid truly a master of the Senate, or at least a game changer, as Jon Ralston’s new biography argues?
Jon ChristensenJan 30
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I Was a Punk for the FBI
Brian James Schill speaks with the founders of ‘Punk’ magazine on its 50th anniversary about whether they were surveilled by the feds.
Brian James SchillFeb 18
Opera (and Comics) Against Fascism
Exploring how the graphic novel ‘Death Strikes’ intersects with the modernist opera ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis,’ a work composed by Jewish prisoners during the Holocaust.
Melissa ChanFeb 16
Cut Gems
Asha Schechter documents the experience of retouching precious gems, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: ‘Security.’
Asha SchechterFeb 14
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Hold Me Too Close
Writer-director Bradley Cooper’s ‘evangelizing’ new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ explores human connection in marriage and stand-up comedy.
Frank FalisiFeb 2
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LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2026 Oscars Preview
Film Comment and LARB editors discuss Oscars 2026, including their personal favorites, film themes of the year, and more
LARB Radio HourMar 13
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Vigdis Hjorth's 'Repetition'
Vigdis Hjorth joins the podcast to talk about about her latest novel, 'Repetition'
LARB Radio HourMar 6
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Lauren Groff's 'Brawler'
Lauren Groff joins the podcast to talk about her new short story collection 'Brawler,' her approach to story writing, and more
LARB Radio HourFeb 27
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Namwali Serpell's 'On Morrison'
Novelist and critic Namwali Serpell joins the podcast to discuss her latest book, 'On Morrison. '
LARB Radio HourFeb 20
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LARB Quarterly, no. 48: 15th Anniversary Issue

The LARB Quarterly no. 48, our 15th Anniversary Issue, is an anthology curated from over 16,000 pieces published over LARB’s lifetime. The collection is not meant to be exhaustive, or the “best of the best,” but rather representative of a certain LARBiness—that combination of critical attention and Los Angeles ease.

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