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"Nosferatu" at 100
Gary D. RhodesFeb 17, 2022
Save Yourself: On Shahriar Mandanipour’s “Seasons of Purgatory”
Mandanipour’s characters oscillate between stoicism and struggle, fantasy and certainty.
Lee ThomasFeb 17, 2022
- Fiction
A Life in Freefall: On Marc Kristal’s “Permission”
A literary romp with booze, coke, and prostitutes told with surgical precision, unpreachy humility, and continuous insight.
Gabriel HartFeb 16, 2022
- Fiction
The Elements of Style: Diana Without Diana
On the heels of Kristen Stewart's Oscar nomination for Spencer, Soraya Roberts dives into the trouble of styling Princess Diana
Soraya RobertsFeb 16, 2022
- Film
- Television
BLARB’s Beautiful Run
LARB celebrates BLARB's 10-year run.
Feb 16, 2022
55 Voices for Democracy: Mohamed Amjahid on the Antiquated Atlanticists
Mohamed Amjahid delivers a lecture as part of “55 Voices for Democracy.”
Mohamed AmjahidFeb 16, 2022
Reading for Trauma
Why are there so many amateur therapists in today's fiction?
Christina FogarasiFeb 16, 2022
- Literary Criticism
Chekhov Large and Small
Bob Blaisdell examines new biographies of Anton Chekhov by Michael C. Finke and Donald Rayfield.
Bob BlaisdellFeb 15, 2022
- Biography & Autobiography
No Longer a Child: Piecing Together a Life in Essays
Journalist Michele Willens pieces together her life in essays.
Michele WillensFeb 15, 2022
Ephemeral Gestures of Care and Self-Compassion: On Nina Mingya Powles’s “Small Bodies of Water”
This memoir of interconnected essays foregrounds small, unmediated acts of pleasure.
Bryony WhiteFeb 15, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
Resisting the Food Establishment: On Mayukh Sen’s “Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America”
Sen has brought to light a stellar cast of culinary experts that readers may not know about but should.
Sharmila MukherjeeFeb 14, 2022
- Biography & Autobiography
- Food & Drink
Dark Academia: Classics in Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens” and Mark Prins’s “The Latinist”
LARB presents the seventh entry in “Pasts Imperfect,” a column that explores the impact of ancient pasts on the present.
Ayelet Haimson LushkovFeb 14, 2022
- Pasts Imperfect
The Great Game
Amit Majmudar uncovers the play element in poetry.
Amit MajmudarFeb 14, 2022
- Poetry
first love as whiskey
M. Pembleton explores her first love.
M. PembletonFeb 13, 2022
- Nonfiction
The Arbiter of Authentic Christianity
Noah Berlatsky reviews Obery M. Hendricks Jr.’s “Christians Against Christianity.”
Noah BerlatskyFeb 13, 2022
- Religion
In the Eye of the Sandstorm: On Nnedi Okorafor’s “Noor”
Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel follows a cybernetically augmented protagonist on a perilous journey of self-discovery.
Ayanni C. H. CooperFeb 12, 2022
- SF