Archive

Until the Next Grave Is Dug
On Urszula Honek’s bleak debut story collection, the Booker long-listed ‘White Nights,’ newly translated by Kate Webster.
Cory OldweilerFeb 10
- Fiction
Monsters of the Anthropocene
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ reduces Mary Shelley’s novel to a one-dimensional warning about technological hubris.
Deborah R. CoenFeb 9
The Crisis at the Heart of Modernity
Terry Eagleton’s recent book employs his trademark witty style in an attempt to say something new about the era that birthed modernism.
Arleen IonescuFeb 9
- Cultural Studies
- Literary Criticism
Medical Education and the Harm of ‘Goodly Heritage’
In the 12th essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, three researchers describe how eugenic ideas linger in the institutions and practices of contemporary healthcare.
Daniel Martinez HoSang, Marco Antonio Ramos, Alana SlavinFeb 8
What Comes First, the House or the Haunting?
‘Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora,’ a new anthology edited by Kristy Park Kulski, uses storytelling to demonstrate why ‘the ghosts of our futures cannot just be entities that lurk in the background.’
Jered MabaquiaoFeb 7
- Fiction
- Cultural Studies
A Clearing in the Mind’s Petrified Forest
In ‘Monk Fruit,’ Edward Salem’s poetry presents ‘a wild ride of touchpoints’ that serve together as a ‘gastric lavage’ for the trauma-fatigued reader.
Rosalie MoffettFeb 7
- Poetry
Kristin Ross's 'The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life'
Kristin Ross talks about her book, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life, and political transformation and cultural representation in an archive episode.
LARB Radio HourFeb 6
- LARB Radio Hour
Incredible Prophecies, Sick Truths
Oedipal iterations, from Sophocles to Arundhati Roy.
Ankhi MukherjeeFeb 6
- History
- Literary Criticism
A Void Filled with Possibilities
The protagonist of Antônio Xerxenesky’s novel ‘An Infinite Sadness,’ newly translated by Daniel Hahn, searches for ‘something beyond psychological solutions’ at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.
Rachel GerryFeb 5
- Fiction
Misaimed Kindnesses and Cruelties
Camille Bordas discusses her new story collection, her writing process, and why anxiety fuels her as a person and a writer.
Lily FelsenthalFeb 5
- Fiction
Mama Don’t Take My Chromophobia Away
Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is selling us a white fantasy.
Lida Zeitlin-WuFeb 4
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies
The End of Psychiatry (Kind Of)
Neurologist Pria Anand lauds Khameer Kidia’s new dissection of Western psychiatric imperialism.
Pria AnandFeb 3
- Science & Technology
- Cultural Studies
Loners and Assassins
Tom Lutz’s new novel ‘Chagos Archipelago’ finds unexpected heart in the adventures of geopolitical operatives and globe-trotting fuckups.
Jerry StahlFeb 3
- Fiction
- Noir
Hold Me Too Close
Writer-director Bradley Cooper’s ‘evangelizing’ new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ explores human connection in marriage and stand-up comedy.
Frank FalisiFeb 2
- Film
Edward Said and the Task of the Intellectual Today
What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?
Rebecca Ruth GouldFeb 2
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Iranians Don’t Need to Prove Their Revolution to You
The uprising in Iran isn’t only against armed oppression; it’s also over narrative.
Sahar DelijaniFeb 1
- Politics
- History