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Why Does a Harvard T-Shirt Make Me Human?
Duwain Pinder reflects on why he feels safer wearing a Harvard t-shirt.
Duwain PinderAug 25, 2017
How Fragile We Were: Why the United States Almost Failed Early
The Trump era wasn’t this nation’s first constitutional mess; the worst one happened almost right after we had a Constitution, argues a new book.
Monica RicoAug 24, 2017
- History
- Politics
Tell Me I Belong Here: On Charif Shanahan’s “Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing”
Natalie Eilbert reviews Charif Shanahan’s new collection, “Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing.”
Natalie EilbertAug 24, 2017
- Poetry
Safe, but Not Okay: When White Supremacists Came to Our Town
Jabeen Akhtar on the white supremacist terrorism in Charlottesville.
Jabeen AkhtarAug 24, 2017
- Nonfiction
- Politics
Art as Target. Art as Grid: On Mary Jo Salter’s “The Surveyors”
Rachel Hadas reviews Mary Jo Salter’s “The Surveyors.”
Rachel HadasAug 24, 2017
- Poetry
Offense of the Humanities
Aaron R. Hanlon reflects on the hate-mail he received after appearing on Fox News, and poses an "offense of the humanities."
Aaron R. HanlonAug 24, 2017
Conspiratorial Realism: On Vladimir Sorokin, Victor Pelevin, and Russia’s Post-Postmodern Turn
Maya Vinokour unravels the conspiracies at the centers of the latest novels by Vladimir Sorokin and Victor Pelevin, Russia’s leading postmodernists.
Maya VinokourAug 23, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction
CRISPR, Patents, and Nobel Prizes
Henry T. Greely on the contentious history of CRISPR patents.
Henry T. GreelyAug 23, 2017
- Science & Technology
Coming Home from Irony: An Interview with Percival Everett, Author of “So Much Blue”
Yogita Goyal talks to Percival Everett about appropriation, "Get Out," Los Angeles, and his new novel.
Yogita GoyalAug 23, 2017
- Fiction
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 2 — A Q&A with Commissioning Editor Nick Stember
A Q&A with Nick Stember, commissioning editor of the new LARB China Channel.
Jeffrey WasserstromAug 23, 2017
A Turkish Woman in the Oedipus Complex: Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red-Haired Woman”
Erdağ Göknar reviews Orhan Pamuk's latest.
Erdağ GöknarAug 22, 2017
- Around the World
- Fiction
Donald E. Westlake: The Writer’s Writer’s Writer
Scott Bradfield celebrates the late Donald E. Westlake.
Scott BradfieldAug 22, 2017
- Noir
“One Thing Only, As We Were Taught”: Moral Revelation, Teaching, and the Eclipse
Isabelle Laurenzi on teaching, and Annie Dillard's "Total Eclipse."
Isabelle LaurenziAug 22, 2017
Midwest Interludes: Three Vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance
Liesl Olson shares three vignettes from “Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis.”
Liesl OlsonAug 22, 2017
- History
Culver City’s Arcana: Books on the Arts
The Newest Addition to LARB's Reckless Reader Program is Culver City’s Arcana: Books on the Arts
Amir SoleimanpourAug 22, 2017
The Provocateur’s Spirit
On “My Heart Hemmed In” by Marie NDiaye.
Tara CheesmanAug 21, 2017
- Noir