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Fiddling Around, “Middling Age”: A Conversation with Tim Kasher
Justin Gautreau speaks to Tim Kasher about making a new album during a global pandemic.
Justin GautreauApr 19, 2022
- Music
Data-Driven: A Conversation with Jane Pek
Naomi Elias talks to Jane Pek about her debut, “The Verifiers,” a mystery revolving around an online-dating detective agency.
Naomi EliasApr 18, 2022
- Noir
Cultivated Illusions: On Lea Ypi’s “Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History”
An engrossing memoir about coming of age in the ruins of post-Soviet Albania.
Cory OldweilerApr 18, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
“His Soul’s Nobility”: On Askold Melnyczuk’s “The Man Who Would Not Bow”
Olha PoliukhovychApr 18, 2022
The One Where We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Victoria Myers considers the resonances between the author Joan Didion and the star persona of Jennifer Aniston.
Victoria MyersApr 18, 2022
- Television
Keeping Memory: On Eduardo Cadava’s “Paper Graveyards”
Branka Arsic considers Eduardo Cadava’s meditations on photography in “Paper Graveyards.”
Branka ArsicApr 17, 2022
- Philosophy & Religion
Womb with a View: On the Science of Maternal Effects
Meredith Reiches lauds Sarah Richardson’s “The Maternal Imprint.”
Meredith ReichesApr 17, 2022
- Science & Technology
Invisible Labor, Invisible Hands
What Adam Smith can — and can’t — tell us about the invisible labor we do every day.
Emily Hodgson AndersonApr 16, 2022
- Economics and Finance
The Tragedy of Ukraine: On Olesya Khromeychuk’s “A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister”
Khromeychuk shares the darkest and most intimate moments of a family experiencing tremendous loss.
Isobel KoshiwApr 16, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
Masculinity and the Polar Gothic: On Ally Wilkes’s “All the White Spaces”
Lowell Duckert reviews the new novel from Ally Wilkes, “All the White Spaces.”
Lowell DuckertApr 15, 2022
- SF
Patti Smith’s “The Melting”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with musician, author, artist and all-around legend Patti Smith about her latest work, “The Melting.”
LARB Radio HourApr 15, 2022
“The Sights and Sounds of Life”: On Matthew Sturgis’s Biography of Oscar Wilde
“Oscar Wilde: A Life” displays an almost Tolstoyan attention to detail.
Kaya GençApr 15, 2022
- Biography & Autobiography
A Practical Guide to the Nonsense Industry
A classic career guide is a failure.
Matt JoyApr 15, 2022
- Nonfiction
A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions
Maria Rubins weighs Tolstoy’s complicated legacy, with the help Andrei Zorin’s new biography and Vadim Shneyder’s “Russia’s Capitalist Realism.”
Maria RubinsApr 14, 2022
- Biography & Autobiography
The Madeleine’s Metapragmatics: On Michael Lucey’s “What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk”
When your dinner-party host offers you a madeleine, how do you respond, and why?
Colton ValentineApr 14, 2022
- Literary Criticism
Feels Like Home: Two Chinese Poets on Love, Longing, and Distance
Anne Henochowicz looks at two recently translated books by Wang Yin and Yu Xiuhua.
Anne HenochowiczApr 13, 2022
- Around the World
- Poetry