Archive

A Family Saga for the Anthropocene: On Zsuzsa Selyem’s “It’s Raining in Moscow”
The story of a posthuman Romanian farmer, told by a cat, a blackbird, a bedbug, and a hemlock tree.
Diána VonnákOct 25, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Anti-Extremism Versus Anti-Fascism
Two new books lay out the differences between anti-extremism and anti-fascism.
Peter BerardOct 25, 2020
- Politics
Dispatches from an Overheated World: On “Tales of Two Planets”
An anthology about climate change has a focus on sewage and trash.
Alan LevinovitzOct 25, 2020
- Politics
A King of Comedy: An Interview with Carl Reiner
In a 2002 Interview, Carl Reiner Revealed Trade Secrets
Michael KurcfeldOct 25, 2020
On the Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination in the Republic of Artsakh
Mashinka Firunts HakopianOct 25, 2020
Clarice Lispector Reborn in David Lynch's Seoul: An Introduction to Outsider Novelist-Essayist Bae Suah
Colin Marshall discusses the enigmatic and subtle qualities of Bae Suah's fiction.
Colin MarshallOct 25, 2020
On the Vote: Emma Goldman and Women’s Suffrage
On the centennial of the 19th Amendment, Emma Goldman reminds us that the vote is not a panacea.
Angela ShpolbergOct 24, 2020
Denizens of Futures That Failed to Take: On M. John Harrison’s “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again”
Nina Allan reviews “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again,” the latest novel from M. John Harrison.
Nina AllanOct 24, 2020
- SF
Riding the Wave: The Steady Rise of Korean Manhwa
DW McKinney surveys the latest major works of manhwa to be published in the United States, including “Grass,” “Uncomfortably Happily,” and “Bad Friends.”
DW McKinneyOct 24, 2020
- Around the World
- Comics
Where Are the Allies for Asian American Kids?
Reckoning with the legacies of racism requires confronting the unique perils faced by ethnic Asian persons and communities.
Karen FangOct 24, 2020
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Cocooning, Then and Now
David EhrensteinOct 24, 2020
What If Writing Lost the Plot?
Akanksha Singh considers plotlessness, and how it's perceived by stories of different cultural provenance.
Akanksha SinghOct 24, 2020
Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine
Talking to Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, about the “social industry"
LARB Radio HourOct 23, 2020
Claude McKay in Our Time: A Conversation with Gary Holcomb and William J. Maxwell on “Romance in Marseille”
Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell on the publication of Claude McKay’s “Romance in Marseille.”
Eric NewmanOct 23, 2020
- Fiction
In a Lonely Place: On “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” and “Love, Guaranteed”
Annie Berke writes about how two recent Netflix original films thematize loneliness and our romance with screens under quarantine.
Annie BerkeOct 23, 2020
- Film
Visions of Cash
Growing up with the man in black.
Drew BratcherOct 23, 2020
- Music