Archive

Death in Her Hands: Talking to Ottessa Moshfegh
Talking to Ottessa Moshfegh about her new book, Death in Her Hands
LARB Radio HourJun 14, 2020
Finding the Right Tools: On Donovan Hohn’s “The Inner Coast”
Gregory McNamee reviews Donovan Hohn’s set of discursive essays about the environment.
Gregory McNameeJun 14, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
Time and Agency: Alternate History Fictions
Keren Omry reviews “Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction.”
Keren OmryJun 13, 2020
Concrete Metaphysics and the Visual Image
Christoph Schneider reviews Clemena Antonova's "Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy."
Christoph SchneiderJun 13, 2020
Who’s Rereading Virginia Woolf?
"Woolf’s novel was written as part of a broader intellectual quest, around a century ago, for the right words and metaphors to account for inner life..."
Danielle DroriJun 13, 2020
Declassified: An Interview with Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Meredith Maran talks to writer Jessica Pearce Rotondi about unresolved grief, hidden political histories, and her debut book, “What We Inherit.”
Meredith MaranJun 12, 2020
Concentrating on Social Meaning: Talking to Ramya Krishnan
Andy Fitch talks with Ramya Krishnan about distinguishing speech from data and what constitutes protected speech in digital spaces.
Andy FitchJun 12, 2020
Conflict Twists
Ellen Elias-Bursac, who lived in Yugoslavia in the 1970 and ’80s, examines three moments that capture the slipperiness of the feelings aroused by conflict.
Ellen Elias-BursacJun 12, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
Forgotten Movie Royalty
A new biography of early cinema’s first family, the Costellos.
Chris YogerstJun 12, 2020
Who Killed American Global Power?
Is Trump breaking the liberal international order or were other forces already at work?
Erik D’AmatoJun 11, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
The Patience of the Hand: On Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power and Our Current Crisis
Seth Lerer rediscovers truth in Elias' Canetti's "Crowds and Power."
Seth LererJun 11, 2020
En la Brega: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young
Shin Yu Pai talks to Kristen Millares Young about her new novel, “Subduction.”
Shin Yu PaiJun 11, 2020
- Fiction
A Voice from America’s Black Belt: On Bakari Sellers’s “My Vanishing Country”
A moving memoir from an insightful commentator on race and politics in America.
Carla BellJun 10, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
A Different Civil War in the Southwest
A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.
Sam KleinerJun 10, 2020
- History
- Politics
The Bombardment of Story: An Interview with Ivy Pochoda
Rachel Barenbaum talks to Ivy Pochoda, author of the book “These Women.”
Rachel BarenbaumJun 9, 2020
- Noir
Thriving in Isolation and Beyond: The Empowering Poetry of Vasyl Stus
The work of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, who spent over a decade in Soviet prisons, is newly relevant in our time of self-isolation.
Bohdan TokarskyJun 9, 2020