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This Nowruz, I Stand with the Protests in Iran with Hope
Noshene Ranjbar on the protests in Iran and the celebration of Nowruz.
Mar 18, 2018
The Folly of Fighting Fate in “All the Names They Used for God”
In her debut collection “All the Names They Used for God,” Anjali Sachdeva mixes the delicate and the dangerous.
Michael ValinskyMar 17, 2018
- Fiction
Lies, Camera, Action
Mychal Denzel Smith on the 25th Anniversary of “Menace II Society.”
Mychal Denzel SmithMar 17, 2018
- Film
Gertrude Stein: Nonsense with a Social Conscience
Sarah Hestra's Short Take on Gertrude Stein.
Sarah HenstraMar 17, 2018
Thus Spake Black Bolt
Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward's "Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time" speaks to reviewer Jackson Ayres.
Jackson AyresMar 17, 2018
- Comics
This is the Spanish Civil War
Jonathan Kirshner makes the case that America today faces a similar moral crisis to that faced in the Spanish Civil War.
Jonathan KirshnerMar 17, 2018
Sabrina Rodriguez is Expanding the Canon One Instagram at a Time, with LatinxReads
19-year-old Sabrina Rodriguez has created an extensive online database of Latinx literature through her Instagram account, LatinxReads.
Pamela AvilaMar 17, 2018
Period Piece of the Present
Bruce Robbins on Raoul Peck's "The Young Karl Marx" and how it relates to the Global South.
Bruce RobbinsMar 16, 2018
LARB Radio Hour: Dispatches From The Border
Francisco Cantu talks about his new book "The Line Becomes a River," an impressionistic chronicle of his five year stint as an agent for the United States Border Patrol.
LARB Radio HourMar 16, 2018
Karl Marx Bicentennial Forum: An Introduction
Jason Barker introduces LARB’s Karl Marx bicentennial forum.
Mar 16, 2018
Time and Trauma in Anne Raeff’s “Winter Kept Us Warm”
The passage of time is measured by trauma in Anne Raeff’s debut novel “Winter Kept Us Warm.”
Linnie GreeneMar 16, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Time and Freedom in Jason Barker’s “Marx Returns”
Nina Power on time and freedom in “Marx Returns” by Jason Barker.
Nina PowerMar 16, 2018
“Young Marx” at the Bridge Theatre London: An Interview with the Writer Clive Coleman
Jason Barker speaks to Clive Coleman, co-writer with Richard Bean of “Young Marx,” a play about Marx and his family’s early years in London.
Jason BarkerMar 16, 2018
The Last Journey of Karl Marx
Jürgen Neffe on the last journey of Karl Marx, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Jürgen NeffeMar 16, 2018
Marx in Bizarro World
The dominant image of Marx that one is confronted with today is not simply distorted but inverted. Jason Read on Marx in Bizarro World.
Jason ReadMar 16, 2018
I Am Not a Marxist
Ana Stankovic on the un-tragic wrongness of Marx’s thought.
Ana StankovicMar 16, 2018