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The Lost Utopia
Zach Gibson revisits cult novelist Marguerite Young’s 1945 study “Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias.”
All Essays
On the Los Angeles Fires
A note from LARB Editor in Chief
The Screenwriter Strikes Back: Leigh Brackett in Hollywood
Maria San Filippo explores Leigh Brackett’s career as the screenwriter of “The Big Sleep,” “The Long Goodbye,” and “The Empire Strikes Back.”
My Machine and Me
Greta Rainbow chronicles her year though Glance Back, a net art piece coded by Maya Man.
Complexity as a Liberatory Practice
Tara Anne Dalbow explores artist-poet Mina Loy’s thrilling embrace of contradiction.
Ins/Outs of 2025
It’s that time again! Enjoy the Ins & Outs of 2024, as predicted by LARB social media savant Maya Chen.
Homespun Tiara
Enzo Escober sits down with Filipina-American trans model and activist Geena Rocero, in a profile from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation.”
American Blondes
In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Arielle Gordon asks: do blondes really have more fun?
The Stories We Come Home To
Maxine Davey returns home for winter break, and to the stories that shape our childhood holiday memories, in a new deep dive into the LARB archive.
Finishing Moves
In his story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Evan McGarvey boards a long flight with a group of professional wrestlers.
La Belle Epoch
Arielle Gordon traces the rise of “The Epoch Times” through her grandmother’s text messages.
Bedrock
In an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 43, “Fixation,” Charley Burlock navigates gravesites, literal and figurative.
Five O’Clock Somewhere
Lina Abascal explores the history of tiki culture in California.
Bright
Grace Byron’s story from the LARB Quarterly no. 43 moves between tense living rooms, quiet bookstores, and dive bars where old songs ooze out of speakers “like sludge.”
Decimated, Then Reassembled on Arrival: Lore Segal’s Legacy
Na’amit Sturm Nagel pays tribute to the late Lore Segal, a novelist who wrote autobiographically.
Syria: From Conflict to Transition
With the world’s eyes on Syria, Maxine Davey reflects on Najwa al-Qattan’s essay on Rania Abouzeid’s “No Turning Back” and the human cost of the civil war.
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