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Outgrowing Melodrama: On Todd Haynes’s “May December”
Victoria Wiet looks at “May December” as a melodrama that exceeds the genre’s ideological limits and binaries.
Archive
Dreaming into Existence: Collaborative Art in Prison
Annie Buckley describes her experiences working with incarcerated artists via the Prison Arts Collective.
Desirous of Indifference: On Peter Stamm’s “The Archive of Feelings”
Michael Knapp reviews Peter Stamm’s “The Archive of Feelings.”
When Grown Men Cry
Outside the Crypto.com Arena, the grief and love of grown men briefly erupted in a gush of tears and chants and memories.
Red Flags/Green Flags
LARB social media director Maya Chen rounds up her ultimate relationship red and green flags for 2024.
Still Raw: Love in David Cronenberg’s “Crash”
Hattie Lindert argues for David Cronenberg’s “Crash” as the ideal Valentine’s Day movie.
The College Writing Center in Times of Crisis
Genie N. Giaimo explores the need for more comprehensive guidance for writing centers during various crises of late-stage capitalism.
Subversion of Resolution: On Eileen Vorbach Collins’s “Love in the Archives”
Melissa M. Monroe reviews Eileen Vorbach Collins’s “Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss.”
Freaks Come Out at Night
Eloise Rollins-Fife masks up and gets down with the art world's cutest creeps, ranging from “sexy rabbit” to “life-sized Furby.”
Multifaceted Portals of Discovery: On Janet Sternburg’s “Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back”
Brendan Riley reviews Janet Sternburg’s new collection of photographs, “Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back.”
Among the Rose Petals, Queer Possibility: On Sasha Velour’s “The Big Reveal”
Christian Lewis reviews Sasha Velour’s “The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag.”
Please Contribute: On Violet Spurlock’s “In Lieu of Solutions”
Violet Spurlock’s “In Lieu of Solutions” is reviewed by charles theonia.
Dubious Dam: A Conversation with Erika Marie Bsumek
Tom Zoellner talks to Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest, which she explores in her recent book “The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau.”
Schiff on Partegàs
1:1 invites writers to reflect on a single work of art with focus, care, and imagination to expand how we view, receive, and write about art.
The Monstrosity of Feminist Art: A Conversation with Lauren Elkin
Tia Glista interviews Lauren Elkin about her new book “Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art.”
I Had Become the Target: On Taylor Swift and the Power of Revisionism
In a preview of the upcoming LARB Quarterly issue, no. 41: “Truth,” Claire Shaffer muses on how Taylor Swift has begun to recast her personal story and musical legacy.
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