Archive

Why Would You Want to Be German?
A new anthology of essays by new Jewish migrants to Germany teems with an odd feeling: patriotism.
Franz BaumannMar 7, 2019
What Does it Mean for Los Angeles When the Frieze Art Fair Comes to Town?
Melissa Karlin examines the staying power of contemporary art fairs in Los Angeles.
Melissa KarlinMar 7, 2019
To Caroline, On the Occasion of My Aunt's Death
Sara DavisMar 6, 2019
- LARB Lit
“Maybe We Can Never Go Back”: An Interview with Moshe Sakal
An Israeli author discusses his first novel in English translation, “The Diamond Setter.”
Shoshana OlidortMar 6, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
Holocaust Remembrance: Primo Levi’s Work
In confronting Primo Levi's writing, in allowing ourselves to be drawn into the horror, we face not the evil that Levi faced, but rather ourselves.
Ashley RindsbergMar 6, 2019
On Being Relevant in Fiction: A Conversation Between Novelists Katrin Schumann and Chip Cheek
Katrin Schumann and Chip Cheek discuss their books, "The Forgotten Hours" and "Cape May."
Chip CheekMar 6, 2019
Sui Generis: Helen Oyeyemi’s “Gingerbread”
Helen Oyeyemi's "Gingerbread" is a Rubik's Cube of a book, with all the frustration and delight that toy entails.
Anita FelicelliMar 5, 2019
Excerpt from The New Me
Halle ButlerMar 5, 2019
- LARB Lit
Dancing Between Worlds: An Interview with Saul Williams
On Saul Williams’s blended family; his love for Ntozake Shange; and his latest project, Neptune Frost, the graphic novel and its musical.
DJ Lynnée DeniseMar 5, 2019
Radical Tenderness: Talking with Moriah Benton about the Queer Babes of Cartoons Zine
Kelly Peyton interviews Moriah Benton about her anthology project "Queer Babes of Cartoons: A Fanzine."
Kelly PeytonMar 5, 2019
The Unromantic Truths of Weimar Germany
Marilyn Macron exhumes the dark history of Ernst Haffner’s “Blood Brothers.”
Marilyn MacronMar 4, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
On Gravity and Play: In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri on literary activism, alternative modernisms, and the comedy of friendship.
Sumana RoyMar 4, 2019
The Last of the Unicorns: Facebook and the Fight for a Better Future
Siva Vaidhyanathan's "Antisocial Media" paints a bleak picture of Facebook's impact, but are its policy prescriptions enough?
Robert GorwaMar 4, 2019
Unlearning Poetry with Pat Parker
Mona Kareem meditates on the poetry of Pat Parker, and her longtime friendship with Audre Lord.
Mona KareemMar 4, 2019
The Woman Reborn: John Rechy’s The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez As an Answer to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Woman Destroyed
Marilyn Macron reviews John Rechy’s "The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez" in light of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Woman Destroyed."
Marilyn MacronMar 4, 2019
The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing
Emily LaBarge reviews Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias.”
Emily LaBargeMar 3, 2019
- Memoir & Essay