Archive

What about Eating Animals, Greta?
Randy Rosenthal questions the lack of calls for reducing animal consumption as part of the most popular proposed climate policies.
Randy RosenthalNov 5, 2019
Cancer’s Crisis Ordinary
For Anne Boyer, illness is an opportunity to better know and critique the society in which she has fallen ill.
Hilary PlumNov 4, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
“Total Strike”: On Anne Boyer’s “The Undying”
Natasha Boyd considers “The Undying” by Anne Boyer.
Natasha BoydNov 4, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Poetry
Histories of Violence: Violence Is Freedom
Brad Evans speaks with Roy Scranton, whose latest books are “Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature” and “I Heart Oklahoma!”
Brad EvansNov 4, 2019
- Histories of Violence
AI Doesn’t Know How You Feel
"We shape our technology and our technology in turn reshapes our emotional lives."
Susan MattNov 4, 2019
The History of IP Illustrated
Intellectual property lawyer Dale E. Nelson reviews "A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects," edited by Claudy Op den Kamp and Dan Hunter.
Dale E. NelsonNov 3, 2019
- History
- Law
Sit in, Burn Out, Move On: A Note on Political Activism in the ’60s
Jay Neugeboren recounts his time as an American antiwar activist in the 1960s and contemplates his current standing as an activist in modern-day America.
Jay NeugeborenNov 3, 2019
- Nonfiction
- Politics
Pure Wordless Emotion on Film: “In This Life” at the 2019 Dance on Camera Festival
Constance Valis Hill reviews Bat-Sheva Guez’s hypnotic new dance film.
Constance Valis HillNov 3, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Film
Before You Hang Me: Four Kurdish Poems from Turkey
Nov 3, 2019
The Tacoma Method: Still Raw and Relevant after 134 Years
Kyle Smith examines crowd-initiated Chinese immigrant persecution in Tacoma, WA in 1885.
Kyle SmithNov 3, 2019
An American in Taiwan — with a Korean Tour Group
Colin Marshall looks at Taiwan from a Korean tourist's perspective.
Colin MarshallNov 3, 2019
Natasha Stagg's Fashionworld Phantasmagoria
LARB Radio HourNov 3, 2019
All About Awe: A Conversation with Peter Heller
An adventure novelist talks about fishing, kayaking, friendship, and God.
Tom ZoellnerNov 2, 2019
- Fiction
"The Psalms aren’t mentioned, but they’re there": Talking with Jonathan Blum
Holiday Reinhorn talks with Jonathan Blum about the forces that inspired his book of stories "The Usual Uncertainties."
Jonathan BlumNov 2, 2019
Auspicious Conflagrations: The Heat of Women’s Anger
Bean Gilsdorf joins the chorus of women speaking about their anger, so that they can do something about it.
Bean GilsdorfNov 2, 2019
Before Climate Change, a Dynamic Arctic
A dazzling new history of the Arctic region between the United States and Russia is leavened with sharp prose and well-informed insights.
Erika HowsareNov 2, 2019