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The Empress
Oliver Wang interviews legendary Chinese American actress Lisa Lu about her 65-year film career.
Archive
An Asynchronous Patchwork
Matthew Longo examines Ed Pulford’s studies of culture and temporality within the China-Russia-Korea borderlands.
Did the Pandemic Ever End?
Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.”
Stop Living Inside Literature
Bekah Waalkes reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s novel “Journey to the Edge of Life,” translated by Maureen Freely.
“Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo
Dive into a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement in the LARB Book Club Summer 2025 pick “Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo.
Marx: The Fourth Boom
Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”
Form, Object, Art
Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
All That Lovely Old Transsexual Shit
Agnes Borinsky appreciates all the ways Vivian Blaxell’s does transness in her book-length essay “Worthy of the Event.”
There Is No Such Thing as Green Capitalism
David Shipko explores climate denialism in speculative literature and culture.
In Defense of the Free Auteur
David Louis Zuckerman explores crisis and awakening in Amalia Ulman’s film, “Magic Farm,” at the 2025 Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
Bear to Look
Ryan Teitman dives into Rosalie Moffett’s new collection of poems, “Making a Living.”
Terminal Delirium
From the perspective of her own experience as a neurologist, Pria Anand critically reads Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”
The Rapturous Power of Words
Sarah Moorhouse explores Edward Wilson-Lee’s “The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language.”
Vauhini Vara’s “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”
Eric Newman speaks with journalist and author Vauhini Vara about her new book “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.”
Ross Douthat’s Tame God
Ed Simon considers the invitation from Ross Douthat to believe in a deity.
Moments Before Burning
Benjamin Paul considers Mary Helen Callier’s debut poetry collection, “When the Horses.”
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