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“Billionaires Glamping in Space”: A Conversation with Rebecca Scherm
Rebecca Scherm discusses her new novel, an eerie, deeply affecting near-future thriller.
Mairead Small StaidMay 3, 2022
- Fiction
Hard to Be a Dad: On Adrian Nathan West’s “My Father’s Diet”
Josh Billings tucks into “My Father’s Diet,” a novel by Adrian Nathan West.
Josh BillingsMay 3, 2022
- Fiction
Fragments of the Asian Diaspora: On New Novels by Julie Otsuka and Jessica Au
Two novels by Asian American authors explore the affective landscape of immigrant experience.
benedict nguyễnMay 3, 2022
- Fiction
The Vandal
Why does Salvador Dalí’s religious art inspire such ferocious responses?
Kasra LangMay 2, 2022
- Art & Architecture
The Movement of the Mind: On Jonathan F. S. Post’s “Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction”
Andrew Neilson gets under the skin of Jonathan F. S. Post’s “Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction.”
Andrew NeilsonMay 2, 2022
- Literary Criticism
Check the Doors: On Alexandra Oliver’s “Hail, the Invisible Watchman”
Maryann Corbett celebrates the appearance of “Hail, the Invisible Watchman,” a new collection of poems by Alexandra Oliver.
Maryann CorbettMay 2, 2022
- Poetry
From Bureaucratic Tangles to Monstrous Wrongs: On Daša Drndić’s “Canzone di Guerra”
This newly translated novel is a masterful mix of firsthand accounts with historical details and wry reportage.
Declan O’DriscollMay 1, 2022
- Fiction
LAX—
Emily Ratajkowski remembers crashing in Los Angeles in this piece from the new LARB Quarterly.
Emily RatajkowskiMay 1, 2022
- LARB Lit
Sinclair Lewis’s Nightmare: On “This Happened Here” and “Rising Fascism in America”
Two books take Trump’s authoritarian impulses with a sense of alarm.
David MasciotraMay 1, 2022
- Politics
The Future Is Bloody: On Gretchen Felker-Martin’s “Manhunt”
Gretchen Felker-Martin’s “Manhunt” shines a light on how our bodies inhibit us, please us, disgust us.
ChristApr 30, 2022
- SF
Surveillance Gone Viral
Evan Selinger lauds David Lyon’s “Pandemic Surveillance” while quibbling with its lack of grounded analysis.
Evan SelingerApr 30, 2022
- Science & Technology
Margo Jefferson’s "Constructing a Nervous System"
Kate Wolf is joined by writer and critic Margo Jefferson, whose latest book is “Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir.”
LARB Radio HourApr 29, 2022
The Art of Translating Comics: A Conversation with Hannah Chute
The translator of several French graphic novels discusses the challenges involved in translating comics.
Alex DuebenApr 29, 2022
- Comics
Who Is Haitian?
A new history of Haiti should be read as philosophy.
Adolf AlzupharApr 29, 2022
- History
“Great Freedom” and the Paradox of Desire and Repression
Nolan Kelly reviews “Great Freedom” as the most recent installment of films about queer desire and the carceral state.
Nolan KellyApr 29, 2022
- Film
“Which Stranger Are You?”: On Gregg Mitman’s “Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia”
Tom Zoellner reviews the new book by Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia."
Tom ZoellnerApr 28, 2022
- History