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Sister Acts: Why Nuns Are Showing Up Everywhere
What’s familiar and what’s new about our current fascination with the figure and the mystery of the nun, from Rosalía to self-help books.
Essays
Reading (and Shopping) with Angela McRobbie
A reflection on the Birmingham School cultural studies scholar’s vision of girlhood.
Finding Our God-Terms
The work of literary critic Mark Edmundson offers a powerful vision for recentering the American university.
Shelter in Place
The battle for Minnesota’s public.
A Building Inside a Building [VIDEO]
A tour of the new Jean Nouvel–designed Fondation Cartier building and its inaugural exhibition.
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From the Archive
American Psychosis: Trumpism and the Nightmare of History
"Insanity in individuals is somewhat rare. But in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." — Friedrich Nietzsche
Shame Never Works
In a new Archive post, Noemí Fierros scoops a second helping of discourse on ‘Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen’ by Hannah Howard.
It Really Can Happen Here
What the transnational links among fascist movements in the 1930s can tell us about the Far Right today.
LARB Staff’s Book Favorites
LARB's editors pick their best reads of 2025, and what their favorite books from the year were.
Sweating It Out
The history of experiencing life as a sweaty body in steamy queer spaces.
A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’
Typescript drafts on view in the newly opened archive reframe the horror maestro’s relationship with his alter ego, Richard Bachman.
Troubled Hearts on the Land
Minneapolis under siege, in images and words.
We Are Not Removed from Our Process
Excerpts from Larry Sultan’s posthumous selected writings, ‘Water over Thunder,’ offer a new lens on his artistic process, sense of place, and pedagogy.
I Was a Punk for the FBI
Brian James Schill speaks with the founders of ‘Punk’ magazine on its 50th anniversary about whether they were surveilled by the feds.
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