Archive

Innocence to the Extreme: An Interview with Cannes Best Director Winners Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Eileen G’Sell talks to the award-winning directors about their newest film, "Young Ahmed."
Eileen G’SellApr 13, 2020
- Around the World
- Film
Freeway Dreams
A historian of misbegotten urban development writes of growing up queer in Tucson.
Candice YaconoApr 13, 2020
- History
- Memoir & Essay
Process Stories, or Who Loves the Sixers?
Phil Maciak considers Yaron Weitzman's "Tanking to the Top," the mythology of Sam Hinkie's Process, and his own life in exile as a Sixers fan.
Phillip MaciakApr 13, 2020
- LARB Ball
Sheltering with Beckett
Michael CoffeyApr 13, 2020
Controlling Grief — An Impossible Task: A Conversation with Casandra López
Casandra López discusses her new poetry collection and the ethics of writing about trauma.
Isabel QuinteroApr 13, 2020
- Poetry
"Poetry doesn’t have to be a quick-anything": A Conversation with TT.O.
Amy Lin talks with Australian poet TT.O. about his latest epic poetry volume "Heide."
Amy LinApr 13, 2020
It Was A Good Day: Talking the Rise of Gangsta Rap with Felicia Angeja Viator
Discussing the rise of gangsta rap in LA
LARB Radio HourApr 13, 2020
Our Age of Sincere Inauthenticity
The route to authenticity is paved with artifice.
Frank BergonApr 12, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
O Jerusalem, If I Should Forget You
A trip through Israel reveals the siege mentality — and the paradoxical openness — that has been with the modern Jewish state from the beginning.
Charles DunstApr 12, 2020
The Courage to Face Death: Easter Lessons from James Cone
Rahuldeep Singh Gill reminds us of the teachings of the late black theologian James Cone and what crucifixion and American racism have in common.
Rahuldeep Singh GillApr 12, 2020
Altered States
LARB presents an excerpt from Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee,” an Object Lesson out this month from Bloomsbury.
Dinah LenneyApr 12, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Nonfiction
A British Denmark Expat Takes the Measure of Korea: Michael Booth's Three Tigers, One Mountain
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall reviews Michael Booth's "Three Tigers, One Mountain," a history of the geopolitical relations in East Asia.
Colin MarshallApr 12, 2020
Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between Anne Charnock and James Bradley
James Bradley and Anne Charnock discuss what it’s like to write fiction in the age of climate catastrophe.
Anne Charnock, James BradleyApr 11, 2020
- SF
Among the Athenians: A Conversation with Grace Elizabeth Hale
Andrew Holter talks with Grace Elizabeth Hale, writer of “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.”
Andrew HolterApr 11, 2020
All in This Together?: On Grace Elizabeth Hale’s “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture”
Jeff Melnick considers the rise of alternative music in the American South, as discussed in Grace Hale’s new hybrid ethnography-memoir, “Cool Town.”
Jeff MelnickApr 11, 2020
Susan Stewart’s The Ruins Lesson: Looking at “unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time”
Erin L. Thompson takes a look the appeal of ruin in Susan Stewart’s "The Ruins Lesson."
Erin L. ThompsonApr 11, 2020