Archive

New Formation: Janelle Monáe’s Radical Emotion Pictures
"Dirty Computer" finds Monáe not only inserting herself into traditions that can’t fully contain her but resculpting them in her likeness.
Adrienne BrownMay 28, 2018
The Path of Ambivalence: On João by John Mateer
Robert Wood reviews the "great poetic gift" of "João" by John Mateer.
Robert WoodMay 28, 2018
Valley View: An Armenian Diasporic Account in Lieu of a Glendale Biennial Review
On the exclusion of Armenian artists from the Glendale Biennial.
Mashinka Firunts HakopianMay 27, 2018
- Art & Architecture
Multiple Exposures: On “Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez”
Geoff Nicholson focuses on “Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez,” edited and introduced by Josh Kun.
Geoff NicholsonMay 27, 2018
- Art & Architecture
Burning: an Acclaimed Korean Auteur's Explosive, Haruki Murakami-Adapting Indictment of Inequality
Colin Marshall on "Burning," Lee Chang-dong's latest film based on a Haruki Murakami short story.
Colin MarshallMay 27, 2018
Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, 10 Years Later
Kristin Marguerite Doidge attends Nora and Delia Ephron’s off-Broadway hit play "Love, Loss, And What I Wore."
Kristin Marguerite DoidgeMay 27, 2018
Recruitment, Ridicule, and Revolution in “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.”
Electrifying and entertaining, "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." uses rich characters and a gripping plot to make a well-researched, time-traveling adventure.
David ShipkoMay 26, 2018
- SF
In the Year 11945 No One Really Dies Without a Reason: On “NieR: Automata”
Why are we so fascinated right now with technological utopias predicated on the rise of artificial intelligence?
Ernesto OyarbideMay 26, 2018
- SF
Sylvia Plath’s Magic Mirror
The duality that Sylvia Plath wrote about in her thesis provides the basis for the personality of Esther, the protagonist of Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”
Kelly Marie CoyneMay 26, 2018
- Fiction
Coming of Age in Columbus
K. Aleah Papes considers Kogonada's 2017 debut feature film "Columbus."
K. Aleah PapesMay 26, 2018
Popular Feminism: The Scandal of the Comeback Story
This is the third installment in a bi-monthly column that will explore some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism.
Sarah Banet-WeiserMay 25, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
Against Ecological Triage
"'The Plant Messiah' aims to ignite a movement." Jeremy B. Yoder on Carlos Magdalena's new book.
Jeremy B. YoderMay 25, 2018
- Science & Technology
Wim Wenders on Pope Francis: The Man and His Words
Wim Wenders, one of cinema's greatest living directors, tells the astonishing story behind his new documentary "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word."
LARB Radio HourMay 25, 2018
Religion Goes to the Movies
"Religion and Film" makes the otherwise confusing relationship between religion and film perspicuous in ways that few academic studies have .
Robert SinnerbrinkMay 25, 2018
- Film
- Religion
I Wonder: Talking Joe Brainard with Andrew Epstein
Andy Fitch and Andrew Epstein discuss the work of Joe Brainard and his fabled "I Remember" structure.
Andrew EpsteinMay 25, 2018
The New Primitives
Primitivism is back, not that it ever left. Ben Etherington on the historical and contemporary notions of primitivism.
Ben EtheringtonMay 24, 2018