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Beginning to See the Light
Rowland Bagnall dives into the early work of Stephen Shore, newly collected by MACK.
Archive
Best of 2025
LARB Radio Hour hosts pick their favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, magazines, and scandals from 2025. Listen to hear about Nuzzi, Superman, and more
Accidental Offerings to Ancient Gods
A palace of fine arts sinks into historical depths in Beatriz Cortez’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council.
They’re Not Simply Phantoms
Leland Cheuk talks absolutism and Norse gods with novelist Kurt Baumeister.
The Robinsonade in the Age of Reality TV
Drew Basile reads the new English reissue of French author Michel Tournier’s novel “Friday.”
Lifestyles of the Rich and Fiendish
Emy Manini faces Alma Katsu’s demons while reading her newest novel, “Fiend.”
Run for the Sun, Little One
Carly Mattox considers recent critiques of imperialist nostalgia via Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” and Adam Curtis’s “Shifty.”
Feral, Fearless, and Long Overdue
Alma Katsu and Sadie Hartmann discuss women who write horror fiction.
Saints of the Middlebrow
Jon Repetti considers Jeremy Rosen’s “Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction.”
Filthy Matters
Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms, in this essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
A Fierce and Complicated Compassion
Alix Christie considers Susan Straight’s challenging yet crucial portraits of an “overlooked” California.
Ha Ha. Sob Sob.
Hannah Tennant-Moore explores Jesse James Rose’s debut memoir.
American Action, Then and Now
Tess Pollok interviews Lauren O’Neill-Butler about her new essay collection, “The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America.”
The Fascist Cinematic Universe
Tim Brinkhof considers Joe Wright’s new Mussolini miniseries as a flawed representation of the rise of fascism in Italy.
A Martyr for Free Speech
Historian Paul Finkelman praises Brad Snyder’s new account of a wrongfully convicted civil rights hero.
Your Life Is Not a Plot
Nada Alic speaks with Halle Butler about social satire, writing humor, and her newest novel, “Banal Nightmare.”
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