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Permission to Meander: A Conversation with Drew Millard
Paul Thompson speaks with Drew Millard about his new book, “How Golf Can Save Your Life.”
Paul ThompsonJun 5, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Sports
Swan Song for a University: On Carolyn Dekker’s “North Country”
Rachel Feder discusses Carolyn Dekker’s new book “North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac” and the crisis in higher education.
Rachel FederJun 4, 2023
- Education
- Memoir & Essay
Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B”
Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”
Martha Anne TollJun 4, 2023
Gone to Texas: On Sam W. Haynes’s “Unsettled Land”
Aaron Gwyn reviews Sam W. Haynes’s “Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas.”
Aaron GwynJun 3, 2023
- Politics
Uncomfortable Somethings: On Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro”
Claire Calderón reviews Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation.”
Claire CalderónJun 3, 2023
Joanna Biggs’s “A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by editor and writer Joanna Biggs, whose new book is called “A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again.”
LARB Radio HourJun 2, 2023
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
Massimo MazzottiJun 2, 2023
The Ironic Radical: On Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative”
Michael S. Roth ponders Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007.”
Michael S. RothJun 2, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
It’s (Not) Just Film Studies: On Returning to “Scream”
Kartik Nair explores the dynamics of the Scream franchise through the lens of 2023’s “Scream VI.”
Kartik NairJun 1, 2023
- Film
The General Crisis of Whiteness: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff
Natasha Lennard speaks with Nicholas Mirzoeff about his new book “White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness.”
Natasha LennardJun 1, 2023
- History
- Politics
A Serious, Chronic, Complex, and Systemic Disease: On Jennifer Lunden’s “American Breakdown”
Tanya Ward Goodman reviews Jennifer Lunden’s “American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life.”
Tanya Ward GoodmanMay 31, 2023
Magic, Memory, and Myth: On adrienne maree brown’s “Fables and Spells”
Candice Thornton examines the magic, memory, and myth in adrienne maree brown’s “Fables and Spells.”
Candice ThorntonMay 31, 2023
- SF
It’s Not What You Think: On Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell’s “The Smartness Mandate”
Evan Selinger reviews Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell’s “The Smartness Mandate” and finds it “vertigo-inducing.”
Evan SelingerMay 30, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
Koritha MitchellMay 30, 2023
The Future of Doctoral Education: Four Provocations for a More Just and Sustainable Academy
Stacy M. Hartman and Bianca C. Williams call for a radical reimagining of the project of graduate education.
Bianca C. Williams, Stacy M. HartmanMay 29, 2023
- Education
What Not to Wear
Bharat Jayram Venkat explores the history of how the business suit became the unit of measurement for heat, in an excerpt from LARB Quarterly, no. 37: Fire.
Bharat Jayram VenkatMay 28, 2023
- LARB Lit