Archive

The Customer Is Wrong: The Commodity and the Work of Art
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch reviews Nicholas Brown’s “Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism.”
Adam Theron-Lee RenschJun 5, 2019
A Green and Fair New Deal Must Prevent Poverty Sprawl
“We cannot reshape cities to reduce their carbon footprint without attending to our existing patterns of inequity and vulnerability to displacement.”
Elizabeth MuellerJun 5, 2019
The Warmth of “New Suns”
John Rieder reviews "New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color," edited by Nisi Shawl.
John RiederJun 4, 2019
- SF
Among the Dark Horses with David Bowman’s “Big Bang”
David Bowman’s posthumously published magnum opus is a sprawling roman à clef about midcentury America.
J. T. PriceJun 4, 2019
- Fiction
Grapes: A Short Story
“A world without darkness is unthinkable.” Hiromi Kawakami's short story "Grapes" will appear in LARB's print Quarterly Journal, No. 23: Imitation.
Hiromi KawakamiJun 4, 2019
- LARB Lit
Desperately Seeking Kin: Genetic Longing in the Donor Gamete Context
Anthropologist, author, and filmmaker Diane Tober explores what it means to be human in the biotech age.
Diane ToberJun 4, 2019
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
To Set Out From Language: An Interview with Sampurna Chattarji
Robert Wood talks with Bengali poet and translator Sampurna Chattarji about multilingualism and collaboration.
Robert WoodJun 4, 2019
The Weekly Read: June 4, 2019
Steve Lichtman reviews the week in politics and culture.
Steve LichtmanJun 4, 2019
Mental Trauma: On Binnie Kirshenbaum’s “Rabbits for Food”
Robert Allen Papinchak reviews Binnie Kirshenbaum's new novel, "Rabbits for Food."
Robert Allen PapinchakJun 3, 2019
- Fiction
No Happy Ending: On Bill McKibben’s “Falter” and David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth”
Roy Scranton reviews two new books by Bill McKibben and David Wallace-Wells, examining why they don't go nearly far enough.
Roy ScrantonJun 3, 2019
Histories of Violence: Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way
Brad Evans speaks with Lewis R. Gordon, author of “What Fanon Said.” A conversation in Brad Evans’s "Histories of Violence" series.
Brad EvansJun 3, 2019
- Art & Architecture
- Histories of Violence
Late Life Urbanism
Apoorva Tadepalli looks at the benefits of an urbanism that encompasses all age groups.
Apoorva TadepalliJun 3, 2019
The Desperate Search for the Mark of the Beast
In the Occult Issue of our Print Quarterly Journal, Anna Merlan muses on the contemporary form of the age-old fear known as "salvation anxiety."
Anna MerlanJun 2, 2019
Are Human Rights History?
Human rights were once seen as full of promise. Now they’re seen by many as a troubling neoliberal project.
Stefan-Ludwig HoffmannJun 2, 2019
The Gift of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th Birthday
Emily Sernaker considers “Little Boy” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his 100th birthday.
Emily SernakerJun 2, 2019
- Fiction
- Poetry
With Parasite, Bong Joon-ho Comes Back to Attack His Homeland — and Wins it a Palme d'Or
"'Parasite' visualizes more explicitly the idea that the richer Koreans become, they more they turn into grotesque parodies of Westerners."
Colin MarshallJun 2, 2019