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Basil Heatter and the Great Comma Awakening
The pulp fiction of Basil Heatter is a sweaty exercise in unusual punctuation.
Archive
“My Soul Demanded It”: On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Between Two Millstones”
Patrick Kurp reads “Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994,” a memoir by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Kristen Arnett’s “With Teeth”
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher talk with queer writer Kristen Arnett about her new novel, “With Teeth.”
A Civilized Frame: On Tove Ditlevsen’s “Dependency”
Nina Renata Aron returns for book three of Tove Ditlevsen’s memoir, “The Copenhagen Trilogy.”
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2021
LARB presents the June 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Our Commerce and Our Freedom, or Why I’m Leaving (for) New York
Events in a city as grand and grotesque as New York owe less to individual actors than to intractable tides.
Philosophical Magic
Crispin Sartwell and John Kaag pay homage to the influential New York Times philosophy section The Stone.
“Beware Flatterers” is Old Advice for a New Age of Impunity
Cynthia Nazarian finds new relevance for received wisdom.
Work and Days: On Peter Gizzi’s “Now It’s Dark”
Dan Beachy-Quick reviews “Now It’s Dark” by Peter Gizzi.
A Greater Catastrophe in Carol Edgarian’s “Vera”
Tryphena Yeboah reviews "Vera," the new novel by Carol Edgarian set after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The Streaming Symposium
LARB presents a collection of essays on the contexts, aesthetics, practices, and ideological ties of streaming media.
Elizabeth Ito’s Neighborhood: “City of Ghosts” and the Rise of Netflix Animation
Phillip Maciak explores the extraordinary niche that “City of Ghosts” occupies in Netflix’s varied animated programming.
Strategic Audio: Podcasts, Propaganda, and the Fairy Tales of Data Mining
Michelle Chihara explores the podcast form as a vehicle for corporate puffery masquerading as journalistic inquiry.
Studio Branding in the Streaming Wars
Joshua Glick considers the differentiation strategies of the streaming platforms in historical context.
The Appearance of Light: On Barry Jenkins’s “The Underground Railroad”
On “The Underground Railroad,” illumination travels across media, refracting and shapeshifting.
Blue Skies Again: Streamers and the Impossible Promise of Diversity
Kristen Warner explores the “illusion [of] the democratizing, diverse ideal of streaming.”
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