Archive

Proletarians of the Screen
Helena Aeberli investigates the aesthetics of memes and trash essays in Joanna Walsh’s “Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters.”
Helena AeberliSep 25
- Cultural Studies
Testing the Soundness
Justin St. Clair revisits some classics in Jonathan Lethem’s “A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories.”
Justin St. ClairSep 24
- Fiction
The Other One Is Me
Sarah McEachern traces the merging images of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl,” newly translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Sarah McEachernSep 24
- Memoir & Essay
The Ruins of Utopia
Melissa Chadburn explores the history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony through the writings of Aldous Huxley.
Melissa ChadburnSep 23
- Memoir & Essay
- History
Realism Scrapes Through
Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”
Harry StecopoulosSep 23
Vous écoutez RFI
Anna Gaca finally understands French, in a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Anna GacaSep 22
- LARB Lit
- Cultural Studies
The Goldilocks of Bothsidesism
Robert N. Watson investigates Thomas Chatterton Williams’s “Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.”
Robert N. WatsonSep 22
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
The Demons That Rule Us
Peter B. Kaufman considers Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics.”
Peter B. KaufmanSep 21
- Politics
- Philosophy & Religion
Religion Without Politics
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan reviews Faisal Devji’s “Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam.”
Winnifred Fallers SullivanSep 21
- Politics
- Philosophy & Religion
Expats Dream About China’s City of Sin
Jeremy Murray reviews Paul French’s “Destination Macao.”
Jeremy MurraySep 20
- History
- Cultural Studies
Which! Brother! Do! I! Pick??????
Dorie Chevlen explores the limits of love in the Prime Video series “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
Dorie ChevlenSep 20
- Television
Sally Mann’s “Art Work: On the Creative Life”
Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak to the photographer and writer Sally Mann about her new book, “Art Work: On the Creative Life.”
LARB Radio HourSep 19
- LARB Radio Hour
When Philosophy Stopped the Traffic in New York City
Alexandre Lefebvre explores Emily Herring’s “Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People.”
Alexandre LefebvreSep 19
- Philosophy & Religion
- Biography & Autobiography
Worlds in Stone: The Rock Books of Richard Sharpe Shaver
Aaron Labaree excavates Richard Sharpe Shaver’s “Some Stones Are Ancient Books.”
Aaron LabareeSep 19
- SF
The Lucent Light of Lethal Pain
Katie Berta examines the properties of grief in Prageeta Sharma’s new poetry collection “Onement Won.”
Katie BertaSep 18
- Poetry
Neither Off the Hook nor Out to Dry
James Ciano interviews Bobby Elliott about his debut poetry collection, “The Same Man.”
James CianoSep 18
- Poetry