Archive

Looking Backward, Thinking Forward
Cathy Whitlock contributes to the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change” conference.
Cathy WhitlockFeb 3, 2019
Last-of Stories
Elizabeth Kolbert contributes to the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change” conference.
Elizabeth KolbertFeb 3, 2019
Nostalgia as Resistive Strategy: Dana Czapnik’s “The Falconer”
Rosa Boshier reviews Dana Czapnik's new coming-of-age novel.
Rosa Boshier GonzálezFeb 2, 2019
- Fiction
Pasadena on Her Mind: Octavia E. Butler Reimagines Her Hometown
The ways Octavia Butler depicted Pasadena offer a window into her own thinking, but also into the power of race and class in the city that shaped that life.
Carl AbbottFeb 2, 2019
- SF
Talking About Food as Cultural Resistance with Monserrat Jarquín
How the drinking of pulque resists the rhythms of industrial capitalism.
Olivia DurifFeb 2, 2019
- Around the World
- Food & Drink
Weaponized Fascination: An Interview with David Shields
Daniel J. Cecil interviews David Shields about "Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention."
Daniel J. CecilFeb 2, 2019
The Music of Jewish Life
Daniel Boyarin reviews Barry Scott Wimpfheimer's "The Talmud: A Biography," part of Princeton University Press's Lives of Great Religious Books series.
Daniel BoyarinFeb 1, 2019
- History
- Religion
Toni Morrison’s Big Bang
The primal wound of slavery in Toni Morrison’s fiction.
Clifford ThompsonFeb 1, 2019
- Fiction
Excerpt from Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif AbdurraqibFeb 1, 2019
- Music
LARB Radio Hour: Mitchell S. Jackson's "Survival Math"
Mitchell S. Jackson, author of 2013's widely acclaimed "The Residue," discusses his forthcoming book "Survival Math: Notes on an American Family."
LARB Radio HourFeb 1, 2019
A Future That Rests with the Fate of the Oppressed: On Rita Indiana’s “Tentacle”
Kristie Soares looks at sex work, race, and political struggle in the Dominican Republic to understand Rita Indiana’s new novel, “Tentacle.”
Kristie SoaresFeb 1, 2019
The Monthly Digest: February 2019
Feb 1, 2019
Immigration in Multigenerational Terms: Talking to Reihan Salam
Andy Fitch interviews Reihan Salam, author of "Melting Pot or Civil War? A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders."
Andy FitchFeb 1, 2019
“Carpenter’s Gothic”: William Gaddis’s Compositional Self
On William Gaddis’s classic study of “humankind dying of itself.”
Greg GerkeJan 31, 2019
- Fiction
Emergency Lights Blinking: On Samanta Schweblin’s “Mouthful of Birds”
Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Samanta Schweblin's new collection of short stories, "Mouthful of Birds."
Nathan Scott McNamaraJan 31, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
You, Plural
A new memoir about sexual abuse, eating disorders, and the vulnerability of black bodies.
Molly PuldaJan 31, 2019
- Memoir & Essay