An utterly uninspired grad student fortuitously meets the niece of an iconic writer with access to her aunt’s secret notebooks. Inspiration turns to infatuation in this quintessential writerly novel. Check out our Winter 2019 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Talent” by Juliet Lapidos.
A look at the writing of Ronald M. Schernikau, a unique figure within the German left whose homosexuality inspired a Whitmanesque expansive politics.
Krithika Varagur looks at two recent women-centric Westerns and attest to the quintessentially American genre’s enduring vitality abroad.
Despite the fact that misogyny has long existed as the norm, in the current moment there is an overt claim that masculinity and patriarchy are under threat.
Far from being a “trifle,” "Hail, Caesar!" is thematically profound, a heartfelt and rueful tribute to the craft of filmmaking.
Blockchain developers often invoke sci-fi to describe the technology, but science fiction has been slow to explore blockchain with a few exceptions.
How the United States lost the dream of making progress over the life course.
Sven Birkerts and Christopher Benfey discuss art, awareness, and the operations of chance.
In 2016 or early 2017, Paul Manafort’s 32-year-old daughter’s cell phone was hacked. What do the texts reveal, and why aren't we talking about them?
LARB presents two recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated from the French by Sarah Clift.
Katie Fricas's new comic depicts the little-known details of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair to add nuance to the much-maligned White House intern.
A years-long visual investigation into how Iraq War blowback is playing out in Egypt, the second-largest recipient of US military aid.
Samantha N. Sheppard thinks about the back and forth between social injustice, social progress, and the institutional power of the NBA in Showtime's Shut Up and Dribble.
Reading HBO’s “The Deuce” through the lens of academic porn studies.
A new Netflix film explores fat-shaming and body positivity.
ko ko thett brings us another New Year’s letter from Jet Ni.
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