Archive

Technology After Hegemony: On Yuk Hui’s “Art and Cosmotechnics”
Bryan Norton reviews the latest from Yuk Hui, "Art and Cosmotechnics."
Bryan NortonApr 2, 2022
- Philosophy & Religion
Making the Sentence Chic
Joan Didion’s allegiance to craft above action.
Ana QuiringApr 1, 2022
- LARB Lit
Not Like Other Girls
To Katie Kadue, Eve Babitz’s Los Angeles is laid out like lace.
Katie KadueApr 1, 2022
- LARB Lit
A Space Held Against Disappearance: On Diana Abu-Jaber’s “Fencing with the King”
An expansive, polyvocal novel that explores Jordanian American cultural inheritance.
Darren HuangApr 1, 2022
- Fiction
Erasure as Empowerment: A Conversation with Kristina Marie Darling
The prolific poet-critic discusses her latest book of essays, “Silent Refusal.”
Molly GaudryApr 1, 2022
- Literary Criticism
A Private Artifact of Public Madness: On Lora Lafayette’s “Possums Run Amok”
Robert FrombergApr 1, 2022
Shedding Our Concrete Skin: On Bjarne Mastenbroek’s “Dig It!: Building Bound to the Ground”
A striking visual survey of architectural projects that “merge building and ground.”
Lyra KilstonApr 1, 2022
- Art & Architecture
John Markoff's “Whole Earth” and Ulysses Jenkins’s “Without Your Interpretation”
Kate Wolf speaks to John Markoff about his latest book, “Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand,” as well as to artist Ulysses Jenkins.
LARB Radio HourApr 1, 2022
Prague Always, Always Wins: On Daniela Hodrová’s “City of Torment”
A surreal Czech masterpiece that plumbs the magical depths of one of the world’s great cities.
Agnieszka DaleMar 31, 2022
- Fiction
Over a River Strangely Rosy: Reading Poetry in Wartime
Historian Joan Neuberger turns to poetry at a time of war.
Joan NeubergerMar 31, 2022
Putting Things Back Together: On Alexis Sears’s “Out of Order”
Maryann Corbett is awed by “Out of Order,” Donald Justice Poetry Prize–winning collection by Alexis Sears.
Maryann CorbettMar 31, 2022
- Poetry
30 Black Artists at Frieze LA 2022
Michael Kurcfeld and Richard Allen May III survey the work of Black artists presented at Frieze LA 2022.
Richard Allen May IIIMar 31, 2022
How Dictionaries Define Us: Margaret Boyle and Ilan Stavans in Conversation
What can dictionaries tell us about cultural crises and the politics of nationality?
Ilan Stavans, Margaret BoyleMar 30, 2022
- Cultural Studies
The Art of the “Girl-Writer”: On Annie Berke’s “Their Own Best Creations”
Sophia Stewart reviews Annie Berke's new book on the creative lives of women writers in postwar television
Sophia StewartMar 30, 2022
- Television
How to Love: Matthew Strohl and Rax King on Bad Movies
Nicholas Whittaker compares two recuperative, complementary accounts of loving bad objects.
Nicholas WhittakerMar 30, 2022
- Film
Entering the Prism of Family: On Maud Newton’s “Ancestor Trouble”
Lesley Heiser explores Maud Newton’s investigation of ideas of ancestry, genealogy, and her own family in “Ancestor Trouble.”
Lesley HeiserMar 29, 2022
- Memoir & Essay