Archive

Koba: An Excerpt from Ronald Grigor Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution”
LARB presents an excerpt from “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” by Ronald Grigor Suny.
Ronald Grigor SunySep 28, 2020
How to Live Through the Apocalypse
Barbara Kiser extols two remarkable books offering two very different ways of surviving our perfect storm of crises.
Barbara KiserSep 28, 2020
“American Rule” Is Almost Revolutionary
A book diagnosing all of America’s troubles is compelling but doesn’t look at the whole picture.
Paige WelshSep 27, 2020
- History
- Politics
Difficult Women: The Folly of the Reclaim Her Name Project
Brenna M. Casey dissects the difficulties of attempting to credit the real (or imagined) literary figures published under pen names.
Brenna M. CaseySep 27, 2020
“Here Lies Herm — I Mean, Joe”: On Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s “The Brothers Mankiewicz”
Alex Harvey delves into “The Brothers Mankiewicz” by Sydney Ladensohn Stern.
Alex HarveySep 27, 2020
- Biography & Autobiography
- Film
The Water, the Grief
I couldn’t fly home to say goodbye to my grandmother. I was too late. The pandemic had taken root on the East Coast.
Eileen Elizabeth WaggonerSep 27, 2020
- Nonfiction
The LARB Banned Books Reader
An anthology of essays on works of literature that were — and, in some cases, still are — officially unavailable
LARB EditorialSep 27, 2020
39th Annual Banned Books Week
A celebration of the freedom to read, to express and exchange ideas
Sep 27, 2020
The Woman Who Ran: The Cinematic-Romantic Collaboration of Hong Sangsoo and Kim Min-Hee Evolves
"The collision of the sexes in Hong's work has become more awkward and disembodied over time, and sex itself has dwindled to a conspicuous absence."
Colin MarshallSep 27, 2020
Ep. 10: Patrick A. Howell & Marvin L. Mills – Dispatches from the Vanguard and That Rarest of Things Called Hope
Tori talks with the author of Dispatches from the Vanguard about the current zeitgeist of American and global culture through International African Arts Movement.
Sep 26, 2020
Sidelights: Searching for the Young Edward Hopper
Dispatches from the childhood archive of one of America’s most iconic painters.
Juliana RothSep 26, 2020
- Art & Architecture
Somatic Noir: On Jennifer Calkins’s “Fugitive Assemblage”
Lauren Kinney pieces together “Fugitive Assemblage,” an experimental narrative by Jennifer Calkins.
Lauren KinneySep 26, 2020
- Fiction
Our Overeducated Moment: On Andrew Martin’s “Cool for America”
Anthony DiMauro reviews Andrew Martin’s latest work, “Cool for America."
Anthony DiMauroSep 26, 2020
- Fiction
55 Voices for Democracy
Sep 26, 2020
Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism & Fiction
Talking to acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy
LARB Radio HourSep 25, 2020
The LARB Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reader
Honoring the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
LARB EditorialSep 25, 2020
- Law
- Politics