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The Ghosts of Cambridge
Alex Langstaff reviews Jill Lepore’s “If Then” about the Cold War origins of computational data mining and its seedy alliance with behavioral psychology.
Alex LangstaffDec 7, 2020
Queen of Reps (On Spaceship Earth)
Elvia Wilk on her life In quarantine...
Elvia WilkDec 6, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
The Humiliation of No Longer Being Desired: Nathalie Léger’s Investigations of Abandonment
Nathan Scott McNamara considers Nathalie Léger's "The White Dress," out now from Dorothy in a translation by Natasha Lehrer.
Nathan Scott McNamaraDec 6, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Milestones of Milestone
A new biography of an important director of the studio era.
Gary D. RhodesDec 6, 2020
- Biography & Autobiography
- Film
The Voice of Feminism: On “F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry”
Francesca Ebel listens to the varied voices of “F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry.”
Francesca EbelDec 6, 2020
Five Years a Seoulite: Looking Back at the Korea Blog's First Half-Decade
Colin Marshall looks back on changes in Korea since he began writing about it for LARB.
Colin MarshallDec 6, 2020
Performance Anxiety: How Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines Shaped Soldiers’ (Mis)Understandings of the Vietnam War
Cheap magazine stories may have fueled the way we fought the Vietnam War.
Nicholas UtzigDec 5, 2020
6 Hörlgasse
Sharing spectral moments in Vienna and Los Angeles with Freud, Thomas Mann, and Marjorie Perloff.
Anthony RendonDec 5, 2020
On Derek Mahon
Declan Ryan celebrates the great Irish poet Derek Mahon, who passed away in October of this year.
Declan RyanDec 5, 2020
- Poetry
Chai Stories from the Pandemic
Anandi Mishra reflects on the comforting tastes holding her steady during the pandemic.
Anandi MishraDec 5, 2020
Alex Ross in Wagner's Shadows
Alex Ross discusses Wagner's influence
LARB Radio HourDec 4, 2020
“Madness, Truth, the Entire Choreography”: On Rainald Goetz’s “Rave”
Shane Anderson reviews Rainald Goetz’s “Rave” (1998), recently translated from German to English by Adrian Nathan West.
Shane AndersonDec 4, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
The Imperialist Anxieties of Christopher Nolan
Andrew Fedorov considers Christopher Nolan’s Victorian sensibility and its elision from Tom Shone’s “The Nolan Variations.”
Andrew FedorovDec 4, 2020
- Film
The Hyena’s Laugh: I. U. Tarchetti and the Birth of Italian Gothic
Lawrence Venuti resurrects the fantastic tales of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.
Lawrence VenutiDec 4, 2020
The Juridical Is Libidinal: From the First Amendment to “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
As Maggie Hennefeld explains, Sacha Baron Cohen’s satire takes scatological aim at the American body politic at its most abject.
Maggie HennefeldDec 4, 2020
To Tell or Not to Tell
Greg GerkeDec 4, 2020