Archive

LARB Radio Hour: Huck Finn on the LA River
Author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez's discuss their 21st century recasting of Mark Twain's American Classic: "The Ballad of Huck and Miguel."
LARB Radio HourFeb 23, 2018
On Pacifics, Standards, and the Times
On the sprawling immensity of the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time.”
Sarah Lehrer-GraiwerFeb 23, 2018
- Art & Architecture
The Task of the Thoughtful
Sam Huber on "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart" and Hansberry's oft-misrepresented legacy.
Sam HuberFeb 23, 2018
- Film
Both Attaching to Texts and Inventing Them: Talking to Brian Glavey
Andy Fitch interviews Brian Glavey, author of "The Wallflower Avant-Garde: Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis."
Andy FitchFeb 23, 2018
A Message from Hans Fallada: On “Little Man, What Now?”
Susan Scarf Merrell on what Fallada's novel can offer us now.
Susan Scarf MerrellFeb 22, 2018
- Fiction
Escapism: Colin Winnette Talks to Willy Vlautin About His New Novel, “Don’t Skip Out on Me”
"One of the ideas of the book is: Can you fix a broken person? Can you heal a broken person? Can you make the scars disappear enough so they can get by?"
Colin WinnetteFeb 22, 2018
- Fiction
Whose University Is It Anyway?
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?
Ron SrigleyFeb 22, 2018
- Economics and Finance
- Education
On Fear and Immortality: Dara Horn and Thomas Pierce in Conversation
Authors Dara Horn and Thomas Pierce discuss the role of immortality in their new novels "Eternal Life" and "Afterlives."
Thomas PierceFeb 22, 2018
Present at the Destruction: Humanity’s Success in Ruining Nature
This unholy alliance of producers, consumers, and parochially focused governments is sleepwalking the Earth off the climate cliff. On "The Water Will Come."
Franz BaumannFeb 21, 2018
- Politics
- Science & Technology
“We Are Almost Dead”: The Politics of Migrants and Refugees in an Unequal World
Jonathan Blake surveys several recent works on the refugee crises.
Jonathan S. BlakeFeb 21, 2018
- Around the World
- Politics
Outside It Is Already Winter: Two New Books on Stalinist Terror
Patrick Kurp on “The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936” and “Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial.”
Patrick KurpFeb 21, 2018
Cover Me: On A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise
Lauren Kinney reviews "A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia" by Sandra Allen.
Lauren KinneyFeb 21, 2018
“Alone Together, Together Alone”: On Lisa Halliday’s “Asymmetry”
Lori Feathers takes the measure of “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday.
Lori FeathersFeb 20, 2018
- Fiction
“Even in Windowless Rooms, I See Sky”: Lisa Russ Spaar’s “Orexia”
L. A. Johnson reviews Lisa Russ Spaar’s “Orexia.”
L. A. JohnsonFeb 20, 2018
- Poetry
LEAKED NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT BETWEEN [NAME REDACTED] AND [NAME REDACTED] INTERNATIONAL
A piece by Yxta Maya Murray.
Yxta Maya MurrayFeb 20, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Politics
Judaism Without a Temple: An Excerpt from Martin Goodman’s “A History of Judaism”
An excerpt from “A History of Judaism” by Martin Goodman, published this month by Princeton University Press.
Martin GoodmanFeb 20, 2018
- History
- Religion