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Antiseptic Glass Stream
Sun-ha Hong deconstructs the “paradox of intimacy and disconnection” at the heart of the Peloton fitness brand.
Archive
Streaming Enthusiasm and the Industrious Family Drama
Michael Szalay on what the rise of streaming platforms and their dark family dramas tell us about the US flagging empire.
I Burn in the Memory of Love: On “Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners”
David Brazil considers “Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners,”edited by Michael Seth Stewart.
All That Glitters Is Not Sad: On Dario Diofebi’s “Paradise, Nevada”
A maximalist novel about the Las Vegas Strip falters outside the poker rooms.
From Artifice to Authenticity: A Conversation with Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello discusses her new hold-nothing-back memoir, “Blow Your House Down.”
Cats and the Good Life
Paul J. D’Ambrosio on what John Gray can tell us about cats and the meaning of life.
True Crime’s Deceits: The Genrefication of Tragedy
Despite the popularity of the true-crime genre, murder isn’t meant to be watchable.
What Is Our Resistance?: A Conversation with Joy Mboya
The second installment in LARB’s Decolonize | Defund | Abolish series foregrounds the work of a major Kenyan performer and activist.
All-One or All-None: A Conversation with David Bronner and Gero Leson
A conversation about sustainability, psychedelics, and Dr. Bronner’s soap.
How Schemers Built a State
Mark Massaro reviews Jason Vuic’s “The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream.”
Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes
Mark Haskell Smith talks Athenian rudeness with Aaron Poochigian, translator of “Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly.”
A Would-Be Emperor Too Good to Be True
Nilanjan Bhowmick reviews Supriya Gandhi's biography of Dara Shukoh, "The Emperor Who Never Was."
A Doctor’s Dissent
A doctor attacks those maverick doctors who lambaste the medical profession while channeling its hubris.
Where Evolution Meets Creation: the Uncommonly Speculative Fiction of Kim Bo Young's On the Origin of Species
For the second of a two-part series on Kim Bo Young, Colin Marshall writes about "On the Origin of Species."
Troy Is Burning: Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno Reimagine Euripides’s “The Trojan Women”
Bob Blaisdell is engrossed in Anne Carson’s reimagining of Euripides’s “The Trojan Women,” illustrated by Rosanna Bruno.
What Does It Take to Create a World?: On Lynell George’s “A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler”
Gerry Canavan visits the world of Octavia E. Butler in Lynell George’s “A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky.”
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