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The First Rough Draft of the United States’ Homegrown Nazis
Michael Bobelian considers the renewed relevance of “Under Cover,” Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld.
Michael BobelianJun 3
- History
- Politics
Becoming a Woman Who Screams
Gabrielle McClellan watches Durga Chew-Bose’s debut feature film “Bonjour Tristesse.”
Gabrielle McClellanJun 2
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
Turning Savage to Create a New World
Sarah Moorhouse reads Sue Prideaux’s “Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin.”
Sarah MoorhouseJun 2
- Art & Architecture
- Biography & Autobiography
Belly-Crawling Through the Dark
Alyssa Quinn reviews Ben Segal’s experimental novel “Tunnels.”
Alyssa QuinnJun 1
- Fiction
May the Ratings Be Ever in Your Favor
As Lionsgate ramps up filming the newest “Hunger Games” prequel adaptation, Jazmine Agregado revisits the franchise’s popular indictment of our attraction to violent on-screen spectacle.
Jazmine AgregadoJun 1
Deceptively Small Things
Madelyn Dawson interviews Sarah Manguso about her new book “Questions Without Answers.”
Madelyn DawsonMay 31
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
- Art & Architecture
Not the End of the Broken World
Tianyi considers Yuki Tanaka’s debut collection “Chronicle of Drifting.”
TianyiMay 31
- Poetry
Dan Nadel’s “Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life”
Dan Nadel joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to speak about his new biography, “Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life.”
LARB Radio HourMay 30
He’s a Cretin but We’ll Manage Him
Paul North finds a prescient analysis of the end of the American republic in Karl Marx’s essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”
Paul NorthMay 30
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Grassroots and Guerrillas
Kelly Hammond reviews Stephen R. Platt’s “The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II” alongside other new work about East Asia in World War II.
Kelly HammondMay 30
- History
The Empress
Oliver Wang interviews legendary Chinese American actress Lisa Lu about her 65-year film career.
Oliver WangMay 29
- Film
An Asynchronous Patchwork
Matthew Longo examines Ed Pulford’s studies of culture and temporality within the China-Russia-Korea borderlands.
Matthew LongoMay 29
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Did the Pandemic Ever End?
Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.”
Kiese LaymonMay 28
- Memoir & Essay
- History
Stop Living Inside Literature
Bekah Waalkes reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s novel “Journey to the Edge of Life,” translated by Maureen Freely.
Bekah WaalkesMay 28
- Fiction
“Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo
Dive into a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement in the LARB Book Club Summer 2025 pick “Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo.
May 28
Marx: The Fourth Boom
Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”
Devin Thomas O’SheaMay 27
- Politics
- History