“Danger Blue”: Dana Goodyear Interviews Carol Muske-Dukes
Dana Goodyear talks to poet Carol Muske-Dukes about her new collection, the slipping mask of poetry, and the first poet laureate of California.
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Mirth and Melancholy: The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
A newly translated compendium of Machado de Assis’s short fiction proves him to be an undisputed master of the form.
On Terror
The final installment of Kristina Marie Darling's essay series, "Billed into Silence."
One World into Another
On the seriousness of play and the weirdness of “The Nutcracker.”
“Writing the Unwritten”: The Poetry of Tom Pickard
Alex Niven reviews Tom Pickard’s “Fiends Fell.”
Bruno Latour Tracks Down Gaia
Bruno Latour elaborates upon Gaia, a political biological theory concerning the Earth by James Lovelock.
Book Culture in New York City
New York's Book Culture is part of LARB's Reckless Reader program.
Fighting for Emotional Liberty in Joanna Walsh’s “Break.up”
Joanna Walsh’s latest work of autofiction uses the ghosts of the immediate past to examine the long game of life.
Trump and the Magic Yams
What linguistic anthropology tells us about the appeal of Trump's lies.
The Truest Music
“An essay is a venture, an attempt. It proposes not the Q.E.D. of arrival but ongoingness, forward motion.” Sven Birkerts on “The Art of the Wasted Day."
Diamonds in the Rough: Cordite Poetry Review, Kent MacCarter, and the Australian Poetry Industry
Robert Wood considers the role of the "Cordite Poetry Review" in the Australian poetry community.
A Force That Matters?
How did the 19th-century Catholic Church, in all its anti-modern grandeur and opulence, beget the 21st-century Church we see today?
Sacred Places: Hugh Ryan Interviews Lance Richardson
Hugh Ryan talks to Lance Richardson about his new biography, "House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row."
The Monthly Digest: July 2018
A Talk About Democracy
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's speech, delivered at the Getty Center, about the legacy of Thomas Mann and the state of democracy today.
Pilot’s Eye View: Sam Kleiner’s “The Flying Tigers”
Nicholas Utzig reviews “The Flying Tigers,” a historical work by Sam Kleiner.
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