Four Women’s Voices Reshaping Asian and Asian-American Immigrant Stories
Michael Adam Carroll champions the defiant voices of four contemporary Asian-American women novelists who are reshaping the tales of immigrant communities.
All Essays
The Grief of Others: A Conversation with Filmmaker Patrick Wang
A major independent filmmaker on the challenges of adaptation and the power of grief.
Listening at the Water’s Edge
Writing about climate change involves talking to the marginalized people most affected.
The Killer Inside Jonathan Ames
On Jonathan Ames, from "City Slicker" to "You Were Never Really Here."
How to Raise an Alien Baby
The Melodic Variations of “Cold War”
"Cold War" places its bets on the capacity of a small but carefully told story to embody historical tensions and tragedies much broader than itself.
Ella
The Changed Party
Pursuing the Truth: An Introduction to Józef Czapski's “Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941–1942”
LARB presents Timothy Snyder’s introduction to Józef Czapski's “Inhuman Land,” translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published by NYRB Classics today.
The Gifts of Humility
Costica Bradatan contemplates the blind cruelty of power and the gifts of humility.
The Verdi Festival and the Soul of Italy
Larry Wolff ponders Italian national identity, past and present, at the Verdi Festival.
“Disasters at the Origin of the Sense of Disaster”: Ferrante on Fascism
Tessa Brown considers the politics of “My Brilliant Friend,” an adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
Those Who Care and Those Who Don’t: Children and Racism in the Trump Era
Beautifying Beale Street
"What do we lose when we forget 'Beale Street’s' ugliness, its flaws, its darkness?" On Barry Jenkins's adaptation of "If Beale Street Could Talk."
The Pleasure of Difficulty
Davis Smith-Brecheisen discusses the notoriously difficult novels of Christine Brooke-Rose.
The Evolution of Meaning: Adrian Piper and Victor Hugo at the Hammer Museum
In these strange days, art has the ability to help us make meaning of current events and to encourage a certain form of collective voice and action.
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