Archive

A Slave Empire
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.
Michael O’DonnellJan 29
- History
Our Animals and Other Family
An exhibition inspired by John Berger asks us to reconsider human-animal relations.
Max L. FeldmanJan 29
- Art & Architecture
Sister Acts: Why Nuns Are Showing Up Everywhere
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.
Alexandra VeriniJan 28
An Uneasy Polemic
George Saunders’s latest ghost story, ‘Vigil,’ is a fanciful, tedious megaphone for its author, rather than for its characters.
Kazuo RobinsonJan 27
- Fiction
Life as It Should Be
Devon Halliday on the lure of reality TV in Stephen Fishbach’s novel ‘Escape!’
Devon HallidayJan 27
- Fiction
- Television
Walking Through the Valley of Teenage Rebellion
Madeline Cash talks with Hannah Tishkoff about how her upbringing in the Valley shaped her debut novel ‘Lost Lambs.’
Hannah TishkoffJan 26
- Fiction
Toward a More Creative Vampirism
Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ shines sunlight on the vampirism of cinematic AI and the ways studios have bled the vampire IP dry.
Ryan BedsaulJan 26
- Film
- Cultural Studies
When the Flames Went Out
Losing home and rebuilding, reluctantly, in the year after Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire.
Anthony Dinh TranJan 25
- Environment
- Memoir & Essay
Tricksters and the Spirit World
Julian Brave NoiseCat discusses ‘We Survived the Night,’ his genre-bending revival of the ‘Coyote epic,’ with Leila Nadir.
Leila NadirJan 24
- Cultural Studies
- Environment
Ascetic Ghosts in the Machine
M. D. Usher on Paul Kingsnorth’s impassioned and flawed new manifesto against the pervasiveness of technology in modern life.
M. D. UsherJan 24
- Philosophy & Religion
- Science & Technology
Lauren Rothery's 'Television'
Lauren Rothery talks about her new novel "Television," the current state of Hollywood, and why she thinks television is a good metaphor for romance.
LARB Radio HourJan 23
- LARB Radio Hour
Franny’s Papers
What was lost when Claire Douglas’s archive burned.
Satya Doyle ByockJan 23
- Memoir & Essay
- Biography & Autobiography
Opposition Party
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
Elizabeth AlsopJan 22
- Television
- Cultural Studies
Learn to Love Engineers
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.
Afra WangJan 22
- Politics
- Science & Technology
Sounds of Freedom: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part Three
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.
Brendan Boyle, Adam NaymanJan 21
We Lived Inside Sadness Itself
On Brenda Navarro’s novel ‘Eating Ashes,’ newly translated by Megan McDowell.
Cory OldweilerJan 20
- Fiction