Archive

Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism
Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.
Anne Anlin ChengJun 11
- Film
- Cultural Studies
The Politics of Apoliticism
Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”
Kieran SetiyaJun 10
- Philosophy & Religion
The Legend of Bloomsbury
Isabelle Stuart examines Megan Hunter’s new novel, “Days of Light.”
Isabelle StuartJun 10
- Fiction
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
Sophie LewisJun 9
- Fiction
A Map to Black Paris
Doyle D. Calhoun visits “Black Paris: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000” at the Centre Pompidou.
Doyle D. CalhounJun 8
- Art & Architecture
- History
Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk
L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
L. Benjamin RolskyJun 8
- Politics
- History
Wave to the Camera
Grant Sharples interviews the filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about “Pavements,” his unconventional new feature about the band.
Grant SharplesJun 7
- Film
- Music
Two Maoisms
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
Guobin YangJun 7
- History
- Cultural Studies
What To Do About Shame?
In this special episode, hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman wrestle with the question: What are we to do about shame?
LARB Radio HourJun 6
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Andrew Koenig considers Elisha Cohn’s “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel.”
Andrew KoenigJun 6
- Literary Criticism
- Environment
Is Restructuring the Answer?
Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.
Joel SeligmanJun 6
- Law
- Politics
The Fine Art of Bad Writing
Dan Sinykin interviews Tom Comitta about their latest project, “People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels.”
Dan SinykinJun 5
- Literary Criticism
- Fiction
Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water
Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.
Susan Blumberg-KasonJun 5
- Gender & Sexuality
- Cultural Studies
Drawing Out Twombly
Cy Twombly was all over New York and Dean Rader was there to see it.
Dean RaderJun 4
- Art & Architecture
 If Not a Nemesis, a Mirror?
Chris Featherman looks at Marlène Laruelle’s “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime.”
Chris FeathermanJun 4
- Politics
- Cultural Studies
Every Word Is to Be Construed in Favor of Liberty
Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”
Joshua D. RothmanJun 3
- Biography & Autobiography
- History