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Menace and Malice: On Dorothy B. Hughes’s Debut, “The So Blue Marble”
On “The So Blue Marble” by noir grand master Dorothy B. Hughes.
Archive
LARB Highlights 2018
We’re looking back at some of the pieces we’re proud to have published this year. Here is a list curated around some recurring threads in our work.
Tilting at Windmills
Tara Cheesman reviews “Seventeen” by Hideo Yokoyama.
Listening at the Water’s Edge
Writing about climate change involves talking to the marginalized people most affected.
The Killer Inside Jonathan Ames
On Jonathan Ames, from "City Slicker" to "You Were Never Really Here."
A Letter to Alfonso Cuarón from Srećko Horvat
Srećko Horvat writes an admiring letter to Alfonso Cuarón, writer and director of the film "Roma."
Tolkien’s Christmas Book May Be the Only One You Need to Read this Year
Liam Heneghan on the recent release of Tolkien's book The Father Christmas Letters.
Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”
American Resistance, Explained
Jeff Biggers new book looks at the long history of resistance and protest in America.
The First Hundred Days
Charles Halton reviews two new books that challenge the first hundred days of the Trump administration in very different ways.
High School Student, New Bride, Working Girl: The Social Uniforms Project Gazes Straight at Modern Korean Femininity
Colin Marshall considers gender performance and androgyny, and the Korean Instagram account The Social Uniforms Project.
Zoe Leonard’s Photographic Elegies
Grace Hadland considers the meaning of accumulation in Zoe Leonard's recent exhibition "Survey" at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Making of (New) Americans: On Kevin Killian’s “Fascination”
Portrait of a Middle-Class Butch Academic
Alexis Clements reviews Esther Newton’s “My Butch Career,” a memoir of the early life and career of an important pioneer in the field of LGBTQ Studies.
Shape Made of Smoke: Ben Marcus’s “Notes from the Fog”
Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews Ben Marcus's new short story collection.
A Human Rights Case for Economic Growth: Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments
Will Compernolle reviews Tyler Cowen's "Stubborn Attachments," in which Cowen argues for economic growth as a moral principle.
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