Archive

A Suitcase, a Candle, and a Hammer: Ukrainian Artists Face the Russian Invasion
Alisa LozhkinaMar 8, 2022
Putting California Buddhism to Work in Silicon Valley
Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley.
Fred TurnerMar 8, 2022
- Science & Technology
Don’t Touch My Corner: The War from Ivano-Frankivsk
Ostap UkrainetsMar 7, 2022
In Defense of Facts and Expertise: On Ronald J. Daniels’s “What Universities Owe Democracy”
The project of reinvigorating the critical role of the public university has never been more urgent.
Peter B. KaufmanMar 7, 2022
- Education
A People’s Guide to Orange County: Real People, Real Stories, and the Shaping of Local History
An unconventional guidebook to Orange County points to locations of forgotten history.
Tryphena YeboahMar 7, 2022
- History
Charles Bukowski’s Lush Life: “Post Office” and the Utopian Impulse
Half a century after publication, Bukowski’s novel remains a protean depiction of Los Angeles’s beauty and squalor.
Peter RichardsonMar 7, 2022
- Fiction
From Minutemen to Infinite Men
John Hay reviews Robert A. Gross’s latest book about the Concord Transcendentalists.
John HayMar 6, 2022
- Philosophy & Religion
A Genealogy of Resistance
Eitan Nechin on a family history of resistance, from an ancestor's Russian army desertion to his own discharge from the Israel Defense Forces.
Eitan NechinMar 6, 2022
- Politics
“Know That I Am Perfectly Well and That I Always Find a Way”: The Revolutionary Letters of Che Guevara
Che Guevara was a prolific letter writer, and his words show his complexity.
Joy CastroMar 5, 2022
- Politics
A Good Man with a Very Wet Brain
Jervey TervalonMar 5, 2022
Acknowledgment: On Samuel Delany’s “Occasional Views, Volume 2”
Samuel R. Delany’s work moves between minor and major scales with dizzying speed.
Robert KielyMar 5, 2022
- SF
Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Checkout 19”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Claire-Louise Bennett, whose new novel is “Checkout 19.”
LARB Radio HourMar 4, 2022
Inside Out: Moments of Affinity in Xue Yiwei’s “Celia, Misoka, I”
Megan Walsh reviews “Celia, Misoka, I” by Xue Yiwei.
Megan WalshMar 4, 2022
- Fiction
“A Two-Way Street in Time”: A Conversation with Poet and Translator Andrew Frisardi
Felicity Teague asks Andrew Frisardi about his translations of Dante, metrical verse, and inhabiting the poem from within.
Felicity TeagueMar 4, 2022
- Poetry
The Search for a Different Modernism: On Volodymyr Svidzinsky
Ostap Kin explores the old and new tricks of Ukrainian modernist poet Volodymyr Svidzinsky, who was killed in 1941.
Ostap KinMar 4, 2022
Demolishing the Tyranny of Chronology: On Sandro Veronesi’s “The Hummingbird”
A bravura Italian novel about the points in life where “[all the] pain is concentrated.”
Cory OldweilerMar 4, 2022
- Fiction