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Thorns, or The Things That Humans Do in the Name of Care That Are Something Other Than Care
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 38: Earth, Juliana Spahr explores the end.
Juliana SpahrJul 28, 2023
- LARB Lit
- Memoir & Essay
Hope Is Our Last Resort: On Mona Simpson’s “Commitment”
Jordan Elgrably reviews Mona Simpson’s new novel “Commitment.”
Jordan ElgrablyJul 28, 2023
- Fiction
Nothing “Proto” About It: More on MIT Press’s New Radium Age Series
The pleasures of reading the titles from MIT Press’s new Radium Age series, writes historian of science Michael Gordin, lies in the science fiction genre not yet having congealed.
Michael D. GordinJul 27, 2023
Buried in the Sand: On John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock” and Japanese America
Jonathan van Harmelen offers a historical account of the undersung, at times controversial, anti-racist western, John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock.”
Jonathan van HarmelenJul 27, 2023
- Film
- History
Playing with Nature: On “Tears of the Kingdom” as Ecofiction
Martin Dolan reviews the video game “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” as a work of ecofiction.
Martin DolanJul 26, 2023
- SF
The Culture Is Lit and I Had a Ball: On HBO’s “The Idol”
Sophie Frances Kemp reviews HBO’s “The Idol.”
Sophie KempJul 25, 2023
- Television
One or More Asias?: On Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself”
Rana Mitter reviews Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding.”
Rana MitterJul 25, 2023
- History
Illicit, Offshore, Shadow, Invisible: Financial Thrillers and Global Capital
In a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 38: Earth, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara explores the opaque world of global finance.
Michelle ChiharaJul 24, 2023
- Economics and Finance
- LARB Lit
The Banality of Heroism: Marek Edelman and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Samuel Tchorek-Bentall explores the career of Marek Edelman, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Samuel Tchorek-BentallJul 24, 2023
- History
- Memoir & Essay
Red and Green Make … Degrowth: On Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene”
Andrew Ahern reviews Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism.”
Andrew AhernJul 23, 2023
- Politics
- Science & Technology
Translation and the Terebinth: On Translating Meir Shalev
Joanna Chen writes about the pleasures of translating work by the late Israeli writer Meir Shalev.
Joanna ChenJul 23, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness
J. D. Connor ponders how AI is transforming the media landscape, the law, and our lives.
J. D. ConnorJul 22, 2023
From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence
W. J. T. Mitchell asks, What kind of intelligence does AI actually represent?
W. J. T. MitchellJul 22, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
- Science & Technology
Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin’s “Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval”
Kate Wolf is joined by filmmaker Wes Anderson and film programmer and distributor Jake Perlin to discuss “Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval,” an anthology inspired by Anderson’s latest, “Asteroid City,” which is out in theaters now.
LARB Radio HourJul 21, 2023
Great Memoirists Lie: On Caroline Calloway’s “Scammer”
Anna Dorn reviews Caroline Calloway’s “Scammer.”
Anna DornJul 21, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
The New Hellenism
Crispin Sartwell takes us inside a movement that is transforming the discipline—and public reception—of philosophy.
Crispin SartwellJul 21, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion