Archive

Through the Wreckage: On Joe Molloy’s “Acid Detroit”
Alexander Billet reviews Joe Molloy’s “Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music.”
Alexander BilletAug 19, 2023
- Music
Away Upstream Again: On Mark Wormald’s “The Catch”
Katherine Robinson reviews Mark Wormald’s “The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes.”
Katherine RobinsonAug 19, 2023
Andrew Leland’s “The Country of the Blind”
Andrew Leland joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to talk about his first book, “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.”
LARB Radio HourAug 18, 2023
Birth Stories Are an Ideological Minefield: A Conversation with Amanda Montei
Kate Durbin speaks with author Amanda Montei about her new book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”
Kate DurbinAug 18, 2023
- Gender & Sexuality
- Politics
Feeling Like a Barbie: On Greta Gerwig and Chantal Akerman
Lori Marso explores feeling plastic in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and the works of Chantal Akerman.
Lori MarsoAug 18, 2023
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
Taínofuturism, the Hope for a Better Future: On E. G. Condé’s “Sordidez”
Taryne Jade Taylor reviews E. G. Condé’s “Sordidez.”
Taryne Jade TaylorAug 17, 2023
- SF
All the Television We’ll Lose: On Fantagraphics’ “Ernie in Kovacsland”
Harry Waksberg reviews a new book from Fantagraphics about television pioneer Ernie Kovacs, “Ernie in Kovacsland.”
Harry WaksbergAug 17, 2023
- Literary Criticism
- Television
The Deep Story Beneath the Big Lie
The engine of the right-wing movement is a narrative about social disgrace, according to Anthony Nadler and Doron Taussig.
Anthony Nadler, Doron TaussigAug 16, 2023
- Politics
Scrolling Through Poetry: A Conversation with @poetryisnotaluxury
Elizabeth Metzger interviews anonymous Instagram poetry curator @poetryisnotaluxury.
Elizabeth MetzgerAug 16, 2023
- Poetry
The World’s Wife: On Clare Carlisle’s “The Marriage Question”
Victoria Baena reviews Clare Carlisle’s “The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life.”
Victoria BaenaAug 15, 2023
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism
On the Preposterousness of Centering a Fat Body: Liberation and Exile in Iiu Susiraja’s Self-Portraits at MoMA PS1
Nina Herzog explores the exhibition of Iiu Susiraja’s photographs at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York.
Nina HerzogAug 15, 2023
- Art & Architecture
The Greatest Power We Have: On Jennifer Banks’s “Natality”
Anna Katharina Schaffner reviews Jennifer Banks’s “Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth.”
Anna Katharina SchaffnerAug 14, 2023
- Gender & Sexuality
- Philosophy & Religion
After the Leap: Marriage and Philosophy in George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle analyzes the theme of marriage in the life and work of two great 19th-century thinkers and writers, George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard.
Clare CarlisleAug 14, 2023
How Could He Possibly Lose? On Samantha Barbas’s “Actual Malice”
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New York Times v. Sullivan.’”
Stephen RohdeAug 13, 2023
From the Right Action to Human Flourishing: On Howard J. Curzer’s “Virtue Ethics for the Real World”
Christian B. Miller reviews Howard J. Curzer’s “Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character Without Idealization.”
Christian B. MillerAug 13, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
Fission and Fusion: On Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake”
Grace Linden reviews Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake.”
Grace LindenAug 12, 2023
- Fiction