Eileen G’Sell interviews the director and star of “Luce” (2019), a tense psychodrama about race, prejudice, and trauma.
Human Rights Watch researcher Jonathan Pedneault discusses his time in Tijuana, Mexico, at the US Border.
Dear Television's Sarah Mesle considers Emily Nussbaum as a feminist critic and a chronicler of the televisual cult of seriousness.
Key indigenous allies of the U.S. during the Vietnam War were treated shamefully after the withdrawal by both the United States and communist Vietnam.
The werewolf was an apt figure for 1981, a moment when prominent commentators worried that many Americans had become too self-focused.
What would it mean to have a genuinely public college or university, one free from both the debt state and its perverse double, philanthropy?
Natasha Boyd considers the past and future of the fairy story.
The crucial thing to say about Flying Lotus’s music in general, and “Flamagra” specifically, is that it relentlessly generates speculation.
Joshua Stanley looks at two new works by the poet J. H. Prynne, "Or Scissel" and "Of Better Scrap."
Piper French on the contemporary resonance of Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool."
LARB is happy to announce that it will serve as the new home for “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Quincy Troupe, Margaret Porter Troupe, and Ishmael Reed offer their memories of Toni Morrison.
Teow Lim Goh explores the traumas, injustices, and dehumanizing cruelty embedded in the culture and politics of likability.
Merrill Feitell on the form and function of multimedia narratives.
Joseph Roach looks at new biographies on Richard Potter and Sarah Bernhardt to find the origin of the modern celebrity.
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