Archive

Franny’s Papers
What was lost when Claire Douglas’s archive burned.
Satya Doyle ByockJan 23
- Memoir & Essay
- Biography & Autobiography
Opposition Party
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
Elizabeth AlsopJan 22
- Television
- Cultural Studies
Learn to Love Engineers
New books by Dan Wang and Hu Anyan depict ‘both the achievements and the costs of China’s technological rise,’ and why Americans should take note.
Afra WangJan 22
- Politics
- Science & Technology
Sounds of Freedom: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part Three
The third installment of ‘The Biden Years On-Screen’ considers the cinematic fallout of cancel culture, the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the 2022 midterm elections.
Brendan Boyle, Adam NaymanJan 21
We Lived Inside Sadness Itself
On Brenda Navarro’s novel ‘Eating Ashes,’ newly translated by Megan McDowell.
Cory OldweilerJan 20
- Fiction
Haunted by Silence
In Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel ‘The Old Fire,’ newly translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, two sisters must find a way to communicate without words.
Grace LindenJan 20
- Fiction
The Kingdom in His Head
Aran Ward Sell reconsiders the legacy and complex overlapping ‘failures’ of Mervyn Peake’s final novel, ‘Titus Alone.’
Aran Ward SellJan 19
- SF
- Literary Criticism
What Vallejo Do You Want?
Dean Rader considers César Vallejo’s ‘The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems,’ recently translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Dean RaderJan 19
- Poetry
MAGA as Fan Fiction
On America’s runaway Story Drive.
Gideon JacobsJan 18
- Politics
Great Maestros of the Human Heart
Larry Wolff attends the October 2025 Parma Verdi Festival to write about ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Otello,’ and ‘Falstaff.’
Larry WolffJan 17
- Music
Daddy Reissues
Dinah Brooke’s 1971 debut novel ‘Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady,’ newly reissued, explores a young woman’s journey to realizing that ‘we should give up the charade’ of ‘heterosexual relationships and the bourgeois family structure.’
Sophie PooleJan 17
- Fiction
Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland'
Caroline Fraser talks about her new book Murderland, which takes an ecological lens to serial killers, and finds a connection between PNW plants and killers like Ted Bundy
LARB Radio HourJan 16
- LARB Radio Hour
And I Never Looked Back
Tracing the California lineage of Charles Bukowski’s publisher, Black Sparrow Press, and its passionate founder, John Martin.
Joshua BodwellJan 16
- Biography & Autobiography
- History
Mushrooms Are Not a Metaphor
Maria Pinto finds climate futures hidden among wild mushrooms.
Almah LaVonJan 15
- Environment
- Memoir & Essay
Not Exactly a Thesis
Brais Lamela explores fiction, history, and the slipperiness of the nonfiction novel in ‘What Remains,’ newly translated by Jacob Rogers.
Michael BarronJan 15
- Literary Criticism
- Fiction
The Long Breath of the World
On László Krasznahorkai’s sentences and what they require of us.
Nyuol Lueth TongJan 14
- Literary Criticism
- Fiction