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Sitting in Silence: A Conversation with Dash Shaw
Alex Dueben talks with Dash Shaw about his approach to comic writing and moviemaking, as well as his new book, “Discipline.”
Alex DuebenMar 12, 2022
- Comics
New Pants
Jervey TervalonMar 12, 2022
Race, Labor, and Statues
What is “the process” for taking down Confederate statues? There isn’t one.
Jack ChristianMar 12, 2022
- Politics
Mushrooms, Mortality, and the Braided Form: A Conversation with Anna Journey on “The Judas Ear”
Maggie Millner interviews Anna Journey about her new book, “The Judas Ear.”
Maggie MillnerMar 11, 2022
- Poetry
Roads to Everywhere
Two books reveal the hidden lives of Los Angeles thoroughfares.
Tom ZoellnerMar 11, 2022
- History
News of the Heart: On Natalka Bilotserkivets’s “Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow”
Miriam O’Neal delves into Natalka Bilotserkivets’s collection of poems “Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow,” translated from the Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky.
Miriam O’NealMar 11, 2022
Pankaj Mishra’s “Run and Hide”
Pankaj Mishra joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about his new novel, “Run and Hide.”
LARB Radio HourMar 11, 2022
Cinema, Theater, and the Art of Perpetual Transformation in Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Julia Sirmons considers the long-running relationship — at times rivalry — between theater and cinema through the lens of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”
Julia SirmonsMar 11, 2022
- Film
Why Borders Are Bad for the Working Class: An Interview with Justin Akers Chacón
How erasing the border would benefit — not harm — American wage laborers.
Andrea Penman-LomeliMar 10, 2022
- Politics
Biohacking Pain: On Leigh Cowart’s “Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose”
Why do some of us embrace — even pursue — painful experiences?
Rhoda FengMar 10, 2022
- Cultural Studies
Mohamed Amjahid on the Protection of Minorities
Mar 10, 2022
“Impossible to Imagine Just a Few Days Ago”: The War from Kharkiv and Uzhhorod
Mariana Prokhasko, Yuliia IliukhaMar 9, 2022
A Fuckboy’s Own Story: A Conversation with Sean Thor Conroe
The author on his debut novel, “Fuccboi,” and the literary roots of autofiction.
Alec GewirtzMar 9, 2022
- Fiction
Living in Extremity: On Julia May Jonas’s “Vladimir”
A dark, enigmatic tale of a primarily imagined, and then ultimately enacted, obsession.
Lily Hart MeyersohnMar 9, 2022
- Fiction
A Politics of Stigma: On Heather Love’s “Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory”
Samuel Clowes Huneke explores Heather Love’s critique of the origins and work of queer theory in “Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory.”
Samuel Clowes HunekeMar 8, 2022
- Gender & Sexuality
A Suitcase, a Candle, and a Hammer: Ukrainian Artists Face the Russian Invasion
Alisa LozhkinaMar 8, 2022