Archive

Off in the Shadows: A Conversation with Patton Oswalt about Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Rebecca Schultz interviews Patton Oswalt on Michelle McNamara's true crime story "I'll Be Gone in the Dark."
Rebecca SchultzApr 29, 2019
An Atlas of Self
Colleen Kinder reviews the new collage-style memoir by T Kira Madden.
Colleen KinderApr 28, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
The Return of the Return of the Repressed
“Peele wants to make clear just how long a nation can delude itself about what’s real.” Sarah Wasserman and Kinohi Nishikawa review “Us.”
Kinohi Nishikawa, Sarah WassermanApr 28, 2019
- Film
To Hell and Back: Modernized Myth in Hwang Sok-yong’s “Princess Bari”
Richard M. Cho explores the modernized Korean myth at the heart of Hwang Sok-yong’s “compelling and heartrending” novel “Princess Bari.”
Richard M. ChoApr 28, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
Why Not a Founder’s Opera?
Hollis Robbins explores the failure of Adams and Sellers' gold rush opera "Girls of the Gold West" and wonders when tech entrepreneurs will be the subjects of their own operas.
Hollis RobbinsApr 28, 2019
Must We Mean What We Say?: On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell
What the late Stanley Cavell’s memoir tells us about his philosophy.
Marshall CohenApr 27, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Philosophy & Religion
The Denver Statement
Madysen Luebke reviews Nadia Bolz-Weber's new book, "Shameless: A Sexual Reformation," which aims to be the catalyst of a new Christian ethics.
Madysen LuebkeApr 27, 2019
- Gender & Sexuality
- Religion
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Forgotten Queer Brooklyn
Michael Valinsky reviews Hugh Ryan’s new study of Brooklyn’s queer history.
Michael ValinskyApr 27, 2019
- Gender & Sexuality
- History
Cultural Patrimony: A Tribute to Alfredinho Jacinto Melo
Andrew Zingg reconnects with his grandfather's bossa nova legacy through Alfredinho Jacinto Melo's influential club Bip-bip in Rio de Janeiro.
Andrew ZinggApr 27, 2019
Office Park: A Review of Amazon’s Spheres
"A kind of emptiness makes the green spaces of The Spheres feel more like a branding move on Amazon’s part than a facility to be used by actual workers."
Sheila LimingApr 26, 2019
Sin and Punishment: An Interview with Rachel Howzell Hall
Karen Grigsby Bates interviews Rachel Howzell Hall about her new noir novel, “They All Fall Down.”
Karen Grigsby BatesApr 26, 2019
- Noir
Talent Show: Juliet Lapidos and Tom Lutz
Tom Lutz joins Juliet Lapidos to discuss "Talent," her new novel about a 29-year-old English grad student who can’t finish her dissertation, spending her days eating pop tarts rather than producing pages.
LARB Radio HourApr 26, 2019
Letter from New York: The Dope on How We Cope, or, The Theater Cure
Laurie Winer reviews several plays currently on Broadway, including "Hadestown," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "My Fair Lady."
Laurie WinerApr 26, 2019
Hearing Gregor Samsa
Nathan Goldman reviews Kata Gellen’s “Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism.”
Nathan GoldmanApr 26, 2019
- Film
- Literary Criticism
Because I Distrust this Mode: Talking to Dawn Lundy Martin
Andy Fitch interviews Dawn Lundy Martin about her books "Discipline" and "Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life."
Andy FitchApr 26, 2019
High Art in a Low Place: On Don Winslow’s “The Border”
Jim Ruland visits “The Border” by Don Winslow.
Jim RulandApr 25, 2019
- Noir