Archive

Obedience Training
What Milton’s “Paradise Lost” can teach us about dog training.
Emily Hodgson AndersonMar 20, 2021
- Nonfiction
Revenge: A User’s Manual
Is capitalist society nothing more than a series of random acts of senseless violence?
Mikkel Krause FrantzenMar 20, 2021
- Politics
Honest Endings: Talking with Michael Lowenthal
Leland CheukMar 20, 2021
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s Disordered Cosmos
Eric Newman is joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to discuss her book “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.”
LARB Radio HourMar 19, 2021
Growing in All Directions
Two new novels of the Arab diaspora capture the traumas of migration and displacement.
Zahra HankirMar 19, 2021
- Around the World
- Fiction
Giving Up the Ghost: On the Legacy of Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher’s final lectures offer a bracing anatomy of neoliberal capitalism and glimmers of its utopian end.
Alexander BilletMar 19, 2021
- Politics
My Successes (and Failures) Are All Mine?
“The Tyranny of Merit” might recast the way you view everything from essential workers to choice, luck, and smuggery.
Paul J. D’AmbrosioMar 19, 2021
- Philosophy & Religion
Philosophical Myth Writing: Talking to Tae-Yeoun Keum
"We shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss them — nor should we just pick them apart with facts and reasons. We should instead be engaging them."
Andy FitchMar 19, 2021
Walking with Fran
Anandi Mishra discusses the recent docuseries “Pretend It’s a City” through the lens of the flâneur and her own experiences walking through rural India.
Anandi MishraMar 18, 2021
- Around the World
Divafication: A Queer of Color Memoir
Paris Shih writes about finding identity through Taiwanese pop divas.
Paris ShihMar 18, 2021
Going with the Whimsy: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore
Dinah Lenney talks to memoirist Dinty W. Moore, whose latest book, "To Hell with It," is out now.
Dinah LenneyMar 18, 2021
- Memoir & Essay
The WandaVision Cul-De-Sac
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady watches WandaVision and finds the Marvel Cinematic Universe dreaming about itself once again.
Aaron BadyMar 18, 2021
- Dear Television
Where Solidarity Cannot Exist: On Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed”
Piper French reviews the new novel from Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Committed.”
Piper FrenchMar 18, 2021
- Fiction
What’s a Novel Good For?
Andrew Koenig reviews “The Novel and the New Ethics,” the recently published book by Dorothy J. Hale.
Andrew KoenigMar 17, 2021
- Literary Criticism
Both/And: A Conversation with Emily Rapp Black
Emily Rapp Black challenges cultural narratives on disability, memoir, and gender in this interview with Gina Frangello.
Gina FrangelloMar 17, 2021
- Memoir & Essay
Where Gilded Ages Go to Die: Hollywood Returns to the 1930s and ’40s
A new essay by J. T. Price from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No. 29.
J. T. PriceMar 17, 2021