Archive

Ways and Means
Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”
Carey MottAug 10
- Economics and Finance
- Politics
The Gaza Generation
Shaan Sachdev explores Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History,” moral authority, and a generation of young dissenters.
Shaan SachdevAug 9
- Politics
- Cultural Studies
Talking “Heightened Scrutiny” with Sam Feder and Amy Scholder
Eric Newman speaks with director Sam Feder and producer Amy Scholder about their new documentary “Heightened Scrutiny.”
LARB Radio HourAug 8
You’re Not Anyone
Winnie Code considers Andrew DeYoung’s debut feature film “Friendship.”
Winnie CodeAug 8
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
The Articulated Unknown
Tiff Dressen interviews Aaron Shurin about “Elixir: New and Selected Poems.”
Tiff DressenAug 8
- Poetry
- Gender & Sexuality
Delicate and Dirty
Ben Arthur revisits a transformative moment in American culture through the lens of J. Hoberman’s “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.”
Ben ArthurAug 7
- History
- Cultural Studies
The Semiotics of Girlblogging
Tess Pollok interviews Olivia Kan-Sperling about her debut novel, “Little Pink Book.”
Tess PollokAug 6
- Fiction
Virtual Worlds, Future Minds [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Lawrence Lek about his Frieze London exhibition “Guanyin: Confessions of a Former Carebot.”
Michael KurcfeldAug 6
- Art & Architecture
I’m Just Presenting a Clown
Cameron Engwall talks with Erica Peplin about “Work Nights,” her debut novel.
Cameron EngwallAug 5
- Fiction
An Active Project of Exclusion
Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review “Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men,” by Patricia Owens.
Geertje Bol, Jan EijkingAug 5
- Gender & Sexuality
- History
The Common Man Is Coming into His Own
Michael Kobre considers the Fantastic Four superhero “The Thing” and Jack Kirby’s relationship to his own Judaism.
Michael KobreAug 4
Images of the Life That Exists Beyond Everything
Priya Gandhi explores Hilma af Klint’s studies of nature.
Priya GandhiAug 4
- Art & Architecture
Onto the Grayness
Dashiel Carrera speaks with Christian Bök about his ongoing poetry project, “The Xenotext.”
Dashiel CarreraAug 3
- Poetry
- Science & Technology
In the Shadow of Stalin
Ed Pulford reviews Ben Nathans’s “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement” and Perry Link and Wu Dazhi’s “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo.”
Ed PulfordAug 3
- History
- Politics
Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths
Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress.
Erik J. LarsonAug 2
- Science & Technology
- Philosophy & Religion
Bringing Back New Concepts to This Mad City
Caroline Hagood explores Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own,” a collection she hears in spectral conversation with the work of Kendrick Lamar and Agnès Varda.
Caroline HagoodAug 2