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Victor Serge: The Spirit of Liberty
Jared Marcel Pollen celebrates the survival of Victor Serge.
Jared Marcel PollenAug 23, 2022
“Bizness Is Bizness”: On Victor Serge’s “Last Times”
Marcus Hijkoop appreciates Victor Serge’s “Last Times,” a savagely demystifying portrait of France under Nazi occupation.
Marcus HijkoopAug 23, 2022
“Books Want Things for Themselves”: A Conversation with Alice Elliott Dark
Mark Labowskie talks with Alice Elliott Dark about her new novel, “Fellowship Point.”
Mark LabowskieAug 22, 2022
- Fiction
- Literary Fiction
Voices of Zimbabwe: On NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Glory”
Lizzy Attree reviews Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel, “Glory.”
Lizzy AttreeAug 22, 2022
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Things We Carried to Chemo
Lisa Glatt explores first her mother’s and then her own experiences with cancer in the context of national politics and family life.
Lisa GlattAug 21, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
Is There Happiness in War? Where?
Pavlo Matyusha, a prize-winning Ukrainian author and translator fighting on the frontlines, asks what happiness means during wartime.
Pavlo MatyushaAug 21, 2022
In Praise of the Arab Editor
Nile Green discovers Ahmed El Shamsy’s “Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.”
Nile GreenAug 21, 2022
Re-visioning the Mermaid Romance: Monique Roffey’s “The Mermaid of Black Conch”
Jalondra Davis discovers that in Monique Roffey’s “The Mermaid of Black Conch,” fishermen sing, women scheme, and mermaids shed their tails for sneakers.
Jalondra A. DavisAug 20, 2022
“Like Fences in a Flat Land”: On Recent Returns to German Expressionist Lyric
Alexander Sorenson reviews new translations of the expressionist poetry of Georg Trakl and Georg Heym.
Alexander SorensonAug 20, 2022
- Around the World
- Poetry
K-Ming Chang’s “Gods of Want”
Boris Dralyuk and Lindsay Wright are joined by K-Ming Chang to discuss her collection of stories, “Gods of Want.“
LARB Radio HourAug 19, 2022
The “Peacewar” of Sanctions
Priya Satia approves of Nicholas Mulder’s “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.”
Priya SatiaAug 19, 2022
“Left to Folly or to Fate”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s Ballads of Social Unrest
Brian Brodeur reveals the social dimensions and political potential of the ballad.
Brian BrodeurAug 19, 2022
- Poetry
A “Lost Cause” Finds His Way: On Isaac Fitzgerald’s “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional”
Dorian Fox explores Isaac Fitzgerald’s journey from low self-esteem to success in “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional.”
Dorian FoxAug 19, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
What Makes a Millennial?
Sarah Wasserman questions the defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."
Sarah WassermanAug 18, 2022
“Enlightened or Disturbed”: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou
An interview with Elaine Hsieh Chou about love and rage as it plays out in her latest book, "Disorientation," as well as in her funny and heartbreaking piece, “The 100% Silicone Vibrating Ass & Pussy Speaks,” published in the summer “Do You Love Me” issue of The LARB Quarterly.
Ruth Minah BuchwaldAug 18, 2022
- Fiction
- LARB Lit
Love and Friendship Under Late-Stage Capitalism: On Sarah Thankam Mathews’s “All This Could Be Different”
Rafael Frumkin reviews Sarah Thankam Mathews’s new novel “All This Could Be Different.”
Rafael FrumkinAug 18, 2022
- Fiction