The author of ‘Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood and the World Beyond’ underscores the universality of the artist’s engraved landscapes and refutes a critic’s claims that Landacre participated in racism associated with Americans’ westward expansion.
“Rack it!” is a new artist book by British artist and musician Klein published by No Tax/Ornament.
Brooke N. Newman’s ‘The Crown’s Silence’ dives into the long history of transatlantic atrocities committed by Charles III’s ancestors in the name of empire.
An exhibition inspired by John Berger asks us to reconsider human-animal relations.
What’s familiar and what’s new about our current fascination with the figure and the mystery of the nun, from Rosalía to self-help books.
George Saunders’s latest ghost story, ‘Vigil,’ is a fanciful, tedious megaphone for its author, rather than for its characters.
Devon Halliday on the lure of reality TV in Stephen Fishbach’s novel ‘Escape!’
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Losing home and rebuilding, reluctantly, in the year after Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire.
Rhys Langston reports from Los Angeles.
Madeline Cash talks with Hannah Tishkoff about how her upbringing in the Valley shaped her debut novel ‘Lost Lambs.’
Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ shines sunlight on the vampirism of cinematic AI and the ways studios have bled the vampire IP dry.
Losing home and rebuilding, reluctantly, in the year after Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire.
Julian Brave NoiseCat discusses ‘We Survived the Night,’ his genre-bending revival of the ‘Coyote epic,’ with Leila Nadir.
What was lost when Claire Douglas’s archive burned.
New books by Dan Wang and Hu Anyan depict ‘both the achievements and the costs of China’s technological rise,’ and why Americans should take note.
Tracing the California lineage of Charles Bukowski’s publisher, Black Sparrow Press, and its passionate founder, John Martin.
Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” and the mythmaking around a monoculture masterpiece.
M. D. Usher on Paul Kingsnorth’s impassioned and flawed new manifesto against the pervasiveness of technology in modern life.
Lauren Rothery talks about her new novel "Television," the current state of Hollywood, and why she thinks television is a good metaphor for romance.
What was lost when Claire Douglas’s archive burned.
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
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What our editors can’t stop thinking about, from cultural research and reporting to political commentary and coverage of current events.
The third installment of ‘The Biden Years On-Screen’ considers the cinematic fallout of cancel culture, the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the 2022 midterm elections.
On America’s runaway Story Drive.
Neil Shubin’s stories of polar exploration tell us about the losses ahead.
Bill McKibben makes the case for combating the climate crisis by transitioning from fossil fuels to solar power.
Long-form views on literature, art, and experience from LARB’s online magazine and print Quarterly.
Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ shines sunlight on the vampirism of cinematic AI and the ways studios have bled the vampire IP dry.
Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus.
Harley Wong on fashion designer Dilara Findikoglu’s ‘Cage of Innocence’ presentation in light of Edith Wharton’s fiction.
Jake Flanagin examines how reality TV juggernaut Bravo and its ‘Real Housewives’ spin criminality into character development—and ratings gold.
Brief dispatches from L.A.’s arts and culture scenes. Courtesy of LARB’s local columnists and occasional correspondents.
Friends, Romans, countrymen: Nathan Jefferson lends his ears (and eyes) to the immersive “Julius Caesar” production at Heritage Square Museum.
Elizabeth Barton trawls through the newly opened Joan Didion archives at New York Public Library to learn about the making of the author’s first book.
“Nothing is clearly defined” in Julia Yerger’s art exhibition, which Keith J. Varadi finds to be a big win.
Dorie Chevlen attends “Memoryhouse,” an abstract, cinematic performance that still managed to dance around comparisons to contemporary injustices.
Caroline Fraser talks about her new book Murderland, which takes an ecological lens to serial killers, and finds a connection between PNW plants and killers like Ted Bundy
Susan Orlean joins the podcast to talk about her new book 'Joyride: A Memoir,' her literary career, and the state of journalism today
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