Archive

Adventures in Life and Food With JGold
Jervey Tervalon remembers his friend, the beloved Jonathan Gold.
Jervey TervalonJul 29, 2018
Certain Rules of Logic Are Suddenly Obsolete: Aisha Franz on Shit is Real
Nathan Scott McNamara interviews Aisha Franz, illustrator and author of "Shit is Real."
Nathan Scott McNamaraJul 29, 2018
García Márquez Slept Here
A writer discovers a surprising history to her apartment and its connection to the Latin American Boom in literature.
Lucía BenavidesJul 28, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
More Than a Body: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago
All of Ivan Albright’s portraiture contains the same obsessively rendered detail and relentless fascination with how grotesque the human body can be.
Elena Comay del JuncoJul 28, 2018
- Art & Architecture
Naomi Hirahara’s Los Angeles
Mike Sonksen profiles Naomi Hirahara, author of the Mas Arai mystery series.
Mike Sonksen a.k.a. Mike the PoetJul 28, 2018
- History
- Noir
Under Illusions: An Interview with Kerry Wallach
Marilyn Macron interviews Kerry Wallach about her book "Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany."
Marilyn MacronJul 28, 2018
Caring for Capitalism
"The Bleeding Edge" is a contemporary portrait of how a misguided quest for innovation is eroding the forms of connection that make us human.
Joanna RadinJul 27, 2018
- Film
- Science & Technology
The Bad Idea That Keeps on Giving
Why does such a thinker as Ayn Rand persist in being taken seriously by otherwise smart people?
Scott TimbergJul 27, 2018
“Even My Revolts Were Brilliant with Sunshine”: The Solar Humanism of Albert Camus
Jean-Marie Apostolidès and Robert Harrison trace Camus's long intellectual and spiritual journey, from his impoverished Algerian childhood to the car crash that killed him at the age of 46.
Jul 27, 2018
LARB Radio Hour: Tim Wardle, Three Identical Strangers and the Ties That Bind
Director Tim Wardle discusses his Sundance-winning documentary "Three Identical Strangers," which tells the story of identical triplets separated at birth and re-united by chance in their late teens.
LARB Radio HourJul 27, 2018
Popular Feminism: Gendered Mass Violence
This is the fourth installment in a bi-monthly column that will explore some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism.
Sarah Banet-WeiserJul 27, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
Time to Take Sexism in Post-Secondary Education Seriously
Sarah Boon looks at “Sexism Ed,” a new collection of essays from Kelly J. Baker that looks at how gender discrimination impacts women’s lives in academia.
Sarah BoonJul 27, 2018
- Education
- Gender & Sexuality
In Defense of Ethical Journalism
Maria Armoudian defends ethical journalism and discusses how misinformation can be deadly.
Maria ArmoudianJul 27, 2018
How We Evaluate Our Current Circumstances: Talking to Steven Pinker
Andy Fitch interviews Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard and author of "Enlightenment Now."
Andy FitchJul 27, 2018
I’ll Take Manhattan: Judith Krantz, Donald Trump, and the Long, Long 1980s
What Judith Krantz’s 1986 novel tells us about Donald Trump’s America.
Elizabeth SchambelanJul 26, 2018
- Fiction
- Politics
The Land of Pain
Pain is both enemy and idol in Michael Downs’s “The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist.”
Maria BrowningJul 26, 2018
- Fiction