Archive

Parenting in the Age of Fear: An Interview with Kim Brooks
Kathleen Rooney interviews Kim Brooks about her new book on parenting in the age of fear and the anxieties that attend modern motherhood and fatherhood.
Kathleen RooneyOct 13, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
American Idiots, American Killers, and the American Graphic Novel
Paul Morton reviews Jules Feiffer's latest graphic novel, "The Ghost Script."
Paul MortonOct 13, 2018
- Comics
- Politics
Birds Among Us: on Asiya Wadud's Crosslight for Youngbird
Austin Adams reviews Asiya Wadud's debut collection, "Crosslight for Youngbird."
Austin AdamsOct 13, 2018
The Biggest US City That Shouldn’t Exist
An entertaining history of one of the United States’s most improbable cities.
Robin Kaiser-SchatzleinOct 12, 2018
- History
- Politics
Look Again! A Conversation with Irish Artist-Novelist Sara Baume
Amy E. Elkins talks with artist-novelist Sara Baume about cross-media inspiration, scratch-made art, and miniaturization on the page.
Amy E. ElkinsOct 12, 2018
Owls in the Fog: Ben Marcus and Brian Phillips
In a doubleheader, Brian Phillips talks about his new essay collection, "Impossible Owls," and Ben Marcus about his new collection, "Notes from the Fog."

LARB Radio HourOct 12, 2018
Visions of the Homeland: The AfD, Bavarian Identity, and the German Heimat Debate
Leading up to October 14, the AfD and CSU put forth their cases on how they’ll protect Bavarian identity and Heimat from non-German migrants and leftists.
Timothy WrightOct 12, 2018
The Love Story We Need
A young adult novel that restores readers’ faith in the romantic comedy genre.
J. B. HowardOct 12, 2018
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Once the Code Gets Out: Talking to David E. Sanger
Andy Fitch discusses the nuclear arms race and the future of cyber conflict with David E. Sanger, a national-security correspondent for the New York Times.
Andy FitchOct 12, 2018
Why We Need Erotica
The close ties between erotic literature and feminism.
Hayley PhelanOct 11, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
“Marlowe Would Be Proud”: On “The Annotated Big Sleep”
Geoff Nicholson wanders the mean streets with Raymond Chandler’s “The Annotated Big Sleep” for a Baedeker.
Geoff NicholsonOct 11, 2018
- Noir
The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place
Robin James on Kant's laundry, neoliberal hell, and the surprisingly radical political philosophy of The Good Place.
Robin JamesOct 11, 2018
- Philosophy & Religion
- Television
The Motion of the Pestle
Liesl Schwabe reviews Gendun Chopel's "The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex."
Liesl SchwabeOct 11, 2018
Read Some Ethnography, Bro
Kate Reed Petty on pickup artists and the potential of ethnography in Rachel O'Neill's "Seduction."
Kate Reed PettyOct 11, 2018
The Great Red North
Gabriel Winant considers Barry Eidlin’s answer to the perennial question: why has leftism fared better in Canada?
Gabriel WinantOct 10, 2018
Sexual Abuse and Critical Abuse: On Christian Kracht’s “The Dead”
Jan Wilm considers Christian Kracht's latest novel to be translated into English as well as how his critics misjudge his works.
Jan WilmOct 10, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction