Archive

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
Mad Ones with Trust Funds
Andrew Martin’s new novel is a chronicle of the overeducated and underachieving stumbling through a post-pandemic haze.
Adam StrausMar 10
- Fiction
Time-Wasting, Truth-Wasting Exercises
Samuel Cohen’s anthology on book banning diagnoses a recent swell in censorship that’s problematic for more reasons than you’d think.
John Downes-AngusMar 9
- Education
- Politics
Elliptical Selfhood
Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.
Tess PollokMar 9
- Fiction
Photography Gone to the Dogs
John Divola’s photographs of the Southern California desert in the late 1990s get a second wind thanks to Nazraeli Press’s reissues.
Andrew WittMar 8
- Art & Architecture
What Lies Beyond and Beneath
Nadia Davids discusses the ‘thin places’ between life and death in her new novel ‘Cape Fever.’
Katya ApekinaMar 7
- Fiction
Perhaps You’re Not Yourself, But Her
German director Mascha Schilinski’s visually evocative 2025 film suggests the influence of Francesca Woodman’s photographic work.
Marya E. GatesMar 7
- Film
“Superstars” by Ann Scott
One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a carnal portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the ‘90s, the LARB Book Club Spring 2026 pick is Ann Scott's novel, Superstars.
Mar 7
Vigdis Hjorth's 'Repetition'
Vigdis Hjorth joins the podcast to talk about about her latest novel, 'Repetition'
LARB Radio HourMar 6
- LARB Radio Hour
Doing Someone Else’s Crossword
The Francis Crick of Matthew Cobb’s new biography was both the consummate insider and a scientific outlier.
Angela N. H. CreagerMar 6
- Science & Technology
- Biography & Autobiography
Moving Through the World with Eyes Open
In her latest short story collection, Ayşegül Savaş considers lives lived apart.
Angelica HankinsMar 5
- Fiction
Open Rehearsal
Keith S. Wilson’s visually experimental poetry examines the ‘asymmetries of risk’ and repetition to expose ‘how violence enters the body as habit.’
Jeffrey LevineMar 5
- Poetry