Treading Water
Jayson Buford outlines and itemizes late-capitalist life in New York for the new issue of LARB Quarterly.
Jayson Buford outlines and itemizes late-capitalist life in New York for the new issue of LARB Quarterly.
Los Angeles booksellers choose their favorite books of 2023.
Alex Harvey examines the life and music of jazz legend Dexter Gordon.
Olivia Giovetti surveys memoirs about the opera diva Maria Callas, on the centenary of her birth.
Peter Lunenfeld traces the persistence of classic con games in the current explosion of cryptocurrency markets.
A new poem from Zeina Hashem Beck.
Dorie Chevlen presents a LARB Quarterly essay so relatable that Everybody.World made it a T-shirt.
Lori Gallegos outlines the contributions Latinx philosophers have made to the ethics of immigration.
Elizabeth Brake explores the way philosophy allows us to name injustices, and thereby work to rectify them.
Julie E. Cooper explores the collapse, in the wake of October 7, of traditional Zionist narratives about the presumed protections of the Jewish...
J. D. Connor explains what Fox’s game show “Snake Oil,” Disney’s film “Haunted Mansion,” and NBC’s crime series “The Irrational” have in common.
Four Palestinian poets write in a time of catastrophe.
Kate Manne argues that contemporary philosophy has a trans problem.
Todd May argues that we should resist echo chambers that reinforce our beliefs by taking a step back, taking a deep breath, and taking stock.
Megan Wachspress argues that the relationship of leftist activists to their own whiteness is shaping the current wave of anti-Israeli campus protests.
Vanessa Wills argues that philosophical engagement is a necessary alternative to anti-intellectual nihilism and resurgent authoritarianism.