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You Are Having Fun
Will Gottsegen considers what is lost in Spotify’s era of pandering recommendation.
Archive
Dino Buzzati’s Fantastic Universe
Valentina Polcini reviews Dino Buzzati’s “The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories.”
Yet the Weapons Flow
As Sudanese civilians endure the world’s biggest displacement and humanitarian crises, uprooted political analyst Dallia Abdelmoniem unpacks the genocidal war in her country.
Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything”
Eric Newman speaks with Colette Shade about her book “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.”
Memories That Await Like Land Mines
Danica Jenkins reviews Leo Vardiashvili’s debut novel “Hard by a Great Forest.”
Gore Is More
Michael Goodrum reviews Jeremy Dauber’s “American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond.”
The Young Dead
Tim Riley considers Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King.”
This Chaotic, Confusing, Mad World
Jacob Babb reviews Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House.”
The Last Laugh
Maureen Holloway considers Elizabeth Alsop’s “Elaine May.”
Give Them Space
Claire Foster reviews Jacqueline Feldman’s book about Paris’s artistic squat scene, “Precarious Lease.”
Symptomatic Reading
Grace Byron reviews Sarah Chihaya’s “Bibliophobia.”
Dealer’s Choice: What Freedom Is—and Isn’t
Henry Cowles describes how every choice he makes is now haunted by Sophia Rosenfeld’s “The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life.”
Bad Mood Rising
Arielle Gordon interviews Liz Pelly about her new book “Mood Machine” and Spotify’s impact on the music industry ecosystem.
Torn Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt
LARB presents an excerpt by Wayne Koestenbaum from the anthology “Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image,” edited by Dinah Lenney.
To Touch the Dust of Anarres
Jonathan Bolton thoughtfully reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed” within and against the grain of a half century of criticism.
Are We All Addicts?
Maria Cichosz explores new models of addiction and finds them unsatisfactory.
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