Cupcakes and Crotch Kicks: On Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?”
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic...
Tom Zoellner considers the eternal game of cat and mouse between celebrities and journalists in Alex Belth’s “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic...
Henry Luzzatto puzzles over John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show “Everybody’s in L.A.”
LARB presents an excerpt from Yasmin Zaher’s new book “The Coin.”
Zach Gibson reflects on the late-career achievement of the late novelist John Barth.
Anna Marie Cain interviews Paul Tremblay about horror movies and his novel “Horror Movie.”
Bryan Garner reviews Ward Farnsworth’s “Classical English Argument,” exposing flaws, foibles, and fallacies employed by English language writers.
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with author Patrick Nathan about his latest novel, and this month’s LARB Book Club pick, “The Future Was Color.”
Carey Mott reviews Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control.”
Paolo Musso believes the work of an open-minded, bighearted scientist like Marcelo Gleiser is of paramount importance to our future.
T. M. Brown reviews Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.”
Ishani Chokshi reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s latest book, “We Make Each Other Beautiful: Art, Activism, and the Law.”
Alina Stefanescu reviews Patrick Nathan’s “The Future Was Color” …
Mala Chatterjee reads Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” in the context of her own borderline diagnosis.
Grace Byron explores J. D. Salinger’s literary and personal legacies through the lens of “Hapworth 16, 1924.”
Daniel Swain reviews Michael Nott’s “Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life” …
On a vampire weeknight, only the Hollywood Sign was above Madeleine Connors at the Bowl as she swooned over Ezra Koenig and friends.