Archive

The Border-Security-Industrial Complex: A Conversation with Todd Miller
Gabriel Schivone talks with Todd Miller about the ties between US arms companies and the governments of Jordan and Israel.
Gabriel SchivoneOct 3, 2018
- Around the World
- Politics
Hells Angels and Other Role Models: Robert Anthony Siegel’s “Criminals”
“Criminals” is Robert Anthony Siegel’s account of his New York City childhood as the son of an unscrupulous defense attorney.
Pete TosielloOct 3, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
Breaking Our Silence with Anger
"Our power lies in breaking the silence and using our voices to articulate our anger and purpose."
Sarah BoonOct 3, 2018
Wounds in Time: Why We Need Rothko More Than Ever
Brad Evans on the prescience of Mark Rothko’s work, which “opens up wounds in time.”
Brad EvansOct 3, 2018
Left in Polytheism
Can the Hindu left be revived?
Saikat MajumdarOct 2, 2018
A Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Aged Man
Shoshana Olidort reviews Leonard Cohen’s posthumous “The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings.”
Shoshana OlidortOct 2, 2018
- Music
- Poetry
Being Cruised
Jonathan Alexander plumbs the joys of cruising as well as the ethical binds that attend looking at the bodies of others and being looked at in return.
Jonathan AlexanderOct 2, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
Kavanaugh and the Judicial Temperament Issue: A Personal View
LARB's legal affairs editor Don Franzen examines whether Brett Kavanaugh passes the judicial temperament test.
Don FranzenOct 2, 2018
To My Younger Self: Los Angeles, 1972
Stephanie Taylor writers a letter to her younger self, when she was working in advertising in Los Angeles in 1972.
Stephanie TaylorOct 2, 2018
What's Funny in A Farewell to Arms
Verna Kale writes on the under-appreciated comedy of Hemingway's classic, "A Farewell to Arms."
Verna KaleOct 2, 2018
Christianity and Resistance: An Interview with Alan Jacobs
A discussion of what it means to be a Christian in the age of Trump.
Wen StephensonOct 1, 2018
Literature and Life: An Interview with Soledad Fox Maura
A biography of perhaps the most interesting man in the (20th-century) world.
Aaron ShulmanOct 1, 2018
The Monthly Digest: October 2018
In September LARB ran a number of articles that tackled the question of violence from a wide range of perspectives.
Oct 1, 2018
Straw Gods: A Cautious Response to Jordan B. Peterson
Why this controversial psychologist should not be ignored.
Guy StevensonOct 1, 2018
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Livable Art: Classical Music in The Ensemble and The Incendiaries
Shannon Draucker examines the role classical music plays in two recent novels, Aja Gabel's "The Ensemble" and R. O. Kwon's "The Incendiaries."
Shannon DrauckerOct 1, 2018
“The Order of the Day” by Éric Vuillard
A behind-the-scenes account of Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria, this book looks with fresh eyes at a well-known moment in history, dismantling the myth of an effortless victory. Check out our Fall 2018 pick for the LARB Book Club: “The Order of the Day” by Éric Vuillard, translated by Mark Polizzotti.
Oct 1, 2018