Archive

Out of the Darkness: A Conversation with Winnie M. Li
Lauren Young talks to Winnie M. Li about her debut novel, “Dark Chapter,” and the aesthetic and political struggles of translating the nuances of recovery.
Lauren YoungApr 17, 2018
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
The City and the Pen: An Excerpt from Shlomo Sand’s “The End of the French Intellectual”
LARB presents an excerpt from Shlomo Sand’s “The End of the French Intellectual,” translated by David Fernbach and out this month from Verso.
Shlomo SandApr 17, 2018
A Perpetual Layering of Language and Meaning: An Interview with Writer and Translator Jenny McPhee
Nathan Scott McNamara interviews writer and translator Jenny McPhee about her life and work.
Nathan Scott McNamaraApr 17, 2018
After a Grim Year for LGBT Rights, the Way Forward
Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT Rights Program at the Human Rights Watch, on a grim year in LGBT civil rights and what it means for the path forward.
Graeme ReidApr 16, 2018
“Living in the Shadows of the Dead”: Cathy Otten’s “With Ash on Their Faces”
Cathy Otten’s new book tells the tragic story of the Yezidi women taken captive by ISIS.
Ryan BoydApr 16, 2018
On Commuting
Barrett Swanson confuses and elucidates the act of commuting, while drawing on his own experiences of life and travel.
Barrett SwansonApr 16, 2018
- Around the World
- Nonfiction
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Labor of Professional Sport
An excerpt from "Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport" by Nathan Kalman-Lamb, forthcoming from Fernwood Publishing in May.
Nathan Kalman-LambApr 16, 2018
Laughing in the Dark: On J. R. Pick’s “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals”
A. M. Bakalar reviews “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,” a novella by J. R. Pick, translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.
A. M. BakalarApr 15, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Curating the Anthropocene
“Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance” at the MOCA confronts the Anthropocene.
Jon Christensen, Ursula K. HeiseApr 15, 2018
Beast Mode
Colin Dickey on Peter Sahlins’s “1668: The Year of the Animal in France”
Colin DickeyApr 15, 2018
Dropping an America Bomb on Hyundai: Frank Ahrens's Life-in-Korea Memoir Seoul Man
Colin Marshall discusses Frank Ahrens's memoir "Seoul Man," about his stint as a public relations director at Hyundai Motors between 2010 and 2013.
Colin MarshallApr 15, 2018
Mutate or Die: Eighty Years of the Futurians’ Vision
As writers, artists, literary agents, and editors, the collective effect of the Futurians after their dissolution in 1945 was magnificent.
Sean GuynesApr 14, 2018
- Politics
- SF
“Trust Your Vision”: An Interview with the Filmmakers of the Cult Classic “Liquid Sky” (1982)
Sasha Razor interviews Slava Tsukerman, Yuri Neyman, and Marina Levikova, the visionaries behind the cult classic “Liquid Sky” (1982).
Sasha RazorApr 14, 2018
- Around the World
- Film
Marilynne Robinson and the Perception of the Ordinary
Robert Harrison talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, a treasure in contemporary American literature.
Apr 14, 2018
Expectation and Emancipation: Raising a First Generation American
Maryam ZarApr 14, 2018
Free to What?: Reading Zadie Smith at a Best Western in Texas
While traveling in Texas, Aisha Sabatini Sloan takes in the culture and Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free.”
Aisha Sabatini SloanApr 14, 2018
- Memoir & Essay