Archive

Universal Solvent: Experiencing Mario
J. D. Connor reflects on the seemingly endless mutability of the Super Mario Bros. franchise.
J. D. ConnorMay 20, 2023
- Film
Grieving Redness in the West: Reading Malcolm Harris After Mike Davis
Michael Docherty on what Malcolm Harris’s history of Palo Alto owes to Mike Davis’s histories of Los Angeles.
Michael DochertyMay 20, 2023
- Politics
Vermeer: The Mystery of His Mastery, Revealed? [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld reviews the transcendent Vermeer exhibition at theRijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Michael KurcfeldMay 20, 2023
Publishing in Peril? Lisa Lucas and Christian Lorentzen
Christian Lorentzen and Lisa Lucas join Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to talk about recent shake-ups in the publishing industry.
LARB Radio HourMay 19, 2023
The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds
Kate Fortmueller explains the deep roots of the latest WGA strike.
Kate FortmuellerMay 19, 2023
- Politics
Everyone Is Going Away: On Yuri Herrera’s “Ten Planets”
Mattia Ravasi reviews Yuri Herrera’s “Ten Planets.”
Mattia RavasiMay 18, 2023
- SF
What the Center Holds: On Carl Elsaesser’s “Home When You Return”
Hannah Bonner considers the smudge in Carl Elsaesser’s 2021 film “Home When You Return.”
Hannah BonnerMay 18, 2023
- Film
The Open Presentness of Past Moments: On Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty”
Bob Blaisdell reviews Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
Bob BlaisdellMay 17, 2023
- Literary Criticism
Humanism Is a Frail Craft: On Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible”
Robert Zaretsky reviews Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope.”
Robert ZaretskyMay 17, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion
The Work of the Audiobook
Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, and J. D. Porter discuss the economics and aesthetics of audiobooks.
Alexander Manshel, J. D. Porter, Laura B. McGrathMay 16, 2023
- Literary Criticism
Tenderness and Ferocity Go Hand in Hand: A Conversation with Jane Wong
Sean Hooks talks with Jane Wong about her new book “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.”
Sean HooksMay 16, 2023
- Memoir & Essay
Something Reconstructed: On Pirkko Saisio’s “The Red Book of Farewells”
Niina Pollari reviews Pirkko Saisio’s “The Red Book of Farewells.”
Niina PollariMay 15, 2023
- Nonfiction
From Qing Imperial Collection to Chinese National Treasures: On Adam Brookes’s “Fragile Cargo”
Tobie Meyer-Fong reviews “Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City” by Adam Brookes.
Tobie Meyer-FongMay 15, 2023
- Nonfiction
Haunted by Queer Marxism: On Petrus Liu’s “The Specter of Materialism”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Petrus Liu’s “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus."
Samuel Clowes HunekeMay 14, 2023
- Nonfiction
Rigged Capitalism and the Rise of Pluto-populism: On Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”
Jonathan Kirshner reviews Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.”
Jonathan KirshnerMay 14, 2023
- Economics and Finance
The Binary of American Philosophy: On Jonathan Strassfeld’s “Inventing Philosophy’s Other”
Erik Hmiel reviews Jonathan Strassfeld’s “Inventing Philosophy’s Other: Phenomenology in America.”
Erik HmielMay 13, 2023
- Philosophy & Religion