Sarah Manguso’s “Liars”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, “Liars.”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, “Liars.”
Installation of Miyoko Ito: Three Works. Photography credit: Dario Lasagni. All images courtesy American Art Catalogues.
A look at the South’s racial bias is not completely free of bias itself, says Bill Thompson, reviewing Pete Candler’s “A Deeper South.”
Arvind Dilawar reviews Qamar-ul Huda’s “Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.”
Manjula Martin explores the hidden costs and radical potential of humanity’s enduring hobby in Olivia Laing’s “The Garden Against Time.”
Renee Hudson reviews Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s “The Brush” and Selva Almada’s “Not a River.”
An article from 2018 illustrates how his refusal to speak directly about “issues” made J. D. Vance, now Donald Trump’s running mate, the new pundit for white people.
Editors Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov join Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about 20 years of the magazine “n+1,” as well as their new anthology “The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade.”
Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?
LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Please consider supporting our work and helping to keep LARB free.
Help us keep criticism, publishing, and the literary arts accessible for all.
Receive all four issues of the LARB Quarterly (TLQ) annually.
Get all issues of TLQ plus discounts with our bookstore partners, access to exclusive events & more.
Partially tax deductible.
Gisela Salim-Peyer reviews Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s “Simpatía” in advance of the Venezuelan elections.
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Susan Tomes’s new collective biography, “Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives.”
Brittany Menjivar can fly: straight from La La Land to Never Land, for the revamped “Peter Pan” production at the Pantages.
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
Around the World
Art & Architecture
Biography & Autobiography
Comics
Cultural Studies
Dear Television
Decolonize | Defund | Abolish
Documentary Shorts
Economics and Finance
Education
Fiction
Film
Food & Drink
Gender & Sexuality
Histories of Violence
History
Humor
LARB AV
LARB Ball
LARB Lit
LARB Radio Hour
Law
Literary Criticism
Literary Fiction
Memoir & Essay
Music
Noir
Nonfiction
Pasts Imperfect
Philosophy & Religion
Photographer Spotlight
Poetry
Politics
Religion
Remaking the University
Science & Technology
SF
SHORT TAKES
Sports
Television
Travel
Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue
Virtual Events
Writing Sex
Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Brittany Menjivar can fly: straight from La La Land to Never Land, for the revamped “Peter Pan” production at the Pantages.
Everybody’s got something to hide except Madeleine Connors and her monkey (at Roaring Nights at the L.A. Zoo).
Someone give Brittany Menjivar a MacArthur Fellowship for her work reviewing Tarek Ziad’s one-man show in Los Angeles!
Eli Diner witnesses patrons refusing to pay for their own art (why should they?) at the Brick gallery’s Allan Sekula–estate book sale.
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, “Liars.”
Editors Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov join Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about 20 years of the magazine “n+1,” as well as their new anthology “The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade.”
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, “The Coin.”
Eric Newman speaks with author Nell Irvin Painter about her latest collection of essays, “I Just Keep Talking.”