Archive

Cultural Fronts
A well-researched and very useful study of the Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy.
B. Amarilis Lugo de FabritzJan 14, 2021
Hybrid Authoritarianism
What Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has to teach us about Donald Trump’s America.
Janna BrancoliniJan 14, 2021
- Around the World
- Politics
Hong Kong Against the Odds
LARB AVJan 14, 2021
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”
Robert Allen Papinchak sits in on the master class of “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders.
Robert Allen PapinchakJan 14, 2021
Romanticism of the Present
Bakary Diaby reviews two new books by Anahid Nersessian, "The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life" and "Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse."
Bakary DiabyJan 13, 2021
- Literary Criticism
Our Man in the Stacks
A new biography of Graham Greene explores the author’s lifelong bibliomania.
Sunil IyengarJan 13, 2021
- Biography & Autobiography
- Fiction
Love Story at 50
Ella Taylor reminisces about the corny moments and wide impact of the top-grossing 1970 film "Love Story."
Ella TaylorJan 13, 2021
“Live Over Again”: On Stanley Plumly’s “Middle Distance”
Jacqueline Kolosov measures “Middle Distance” by Stanley Plumly.
Jacqueline KolosovJan 13, 2021
- Poetry
Family Fault Lines: On Nadia Owusu’s “Aftershocks”
A new memoir about growing up on uncertain and shifting ground.
Anita GillJan 12, 2021
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
The Mythmaker Gazes at Himself: A Conversation with David Leo Rice
Matthew Specktor and author David Leo Rice discuss his book series, “A Room in Dodge City.”
Matthew SpecktorJan 12, 2021
- Fiction
Who’s Afraid of Transgender Kids?
Michael M. Weinstein looks at Sharon Liese’s new HBO documentary, “Transhood,” which explores the lives of children living beyond the gender binary.
Michael M. WeinsteinJan 12, 2021
- Film
- Gender & Sexuality
Another Look at India’s Books: Ashok Banker’s “Vertigo”
Saikat MajumdarJan 12, 2021
Igor Levit on Music and Politics
Jan 12, 2021
Unfit for Prison: On Ilya Bernstein’s Edition of Osip Mandelstam’s “Poems”
Leeore Schnairsohn scans Ilya Bernstein’s translations of Osip Mandelstam.
Leeore SchnairsohnJan 11, 2021
- Around the World
- Poetry
Robert Walser’s Lockdown Britain
Reading Robert Walser in Britain under lockdown is to be confronted with a duality.
Sophie AtkinsonJan 11, 2021
“Ah, World of Sorrows”: Olga Sedakova’s “Elegy that Turns into a Requiem”
Martha M. F. KellyJan 11, 2021