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The Microchip Titans
Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.
Archive
Does One Size Fit All?
In the 10th essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Jay S. Kaufman shows how the science of human body size is suffused with cultural assumptions.
Alejandro Varela’s “Middle Spoon”
Eric Newman speaks to Alejandro Varela about his latest novel, “Middle Spoon.”
A Mother’s Specter
Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”
Perfect, or Whatever
Paul Thompson speaks with Mike Powell about his debut novel, “New Paltz, New Paltz.”
Toward a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.”
Proletarians of the Screen
Helena Aeberli investigates the aesthetics of memes and trash essays in Joanna Walsh’s “Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters.”
Testing the Soundness
Justin St. Clair revisits some classics in Jonathan Lethem’s “A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories.”
The Other One Is Me
Sarah McEachern traces the merging images of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl,” newly translated by Alison L. Strayer.
The Ruins of Utopia
Melissa Chadburn explores the history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony through the writings of Aldous Huxley.
Realism Scrapes Through
Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”
Vous écoutez RFI
Anna Gaca finally understands French, in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Goldilocks of Bothsidesism
Robert N. Watson investigates Thomas Chatterton Williams’s “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.”
The Demons That Rule Us
Peter B. Kaufman considers Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics.”
Religion Without Politics
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan reviews Faisal Devji’s “Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam.”
Expats Dream About China’s City of Sin
Jeremy Murray reviews Paul French’s “Destination Macao.”
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