Where They Burn Books: A Writer Pays the Price for Honesty
The Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli reflects on his life under de facto house arrest.
All Essays
The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50
How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.
Eisenstein Versus Sinclair: H. W. L. Dana and “¡Que Viva México!”
Angela Shpolberg provides a blow-by-blow account of the conflict between Upton Sinclair, Sergei Eisenstein, H. W. L. Dana, and Stalin.
Last Man: On Claire Denis’s “High Life”
"The film is not just about violence, the film is itself violent and the audience suffers this directly." Francey Russell on "High Life."
Too Close, Too Compromised: “Killing Eve” and the Promise of Sandra Oh
Summer Kim Lee on representation, attachment, and being too close to Sandra Oh, from Grey's Anatomy to Killing Eve.
Norway, Somalia, and the Specters of Terror
A British filmmaker and a Somali novelist explore migration, radicalization, and terror.
The Talking Walls of Angel Island
Joy Lanzendorfer considers the poetry and history of Angel Island.
The Mixed Meanings of Missing Girls
Martha Cooley searches for the figure of the missing girl in contemporary fiction.
Anne of the Armistice: Girls’ Book Heroines Confront the Great War
Looking back at YA novels of the home front on the centennial of the World War I Armistice.
What Does Jill Soloway Want?
Meredith Maran takes a look at Jill Soloway’s new memoir, “She Wants It,” which delves into the noted director and writer’s political awakening.
My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971
Dan Wakefield recalls his favorite year, spent with Eve Babitz in her city.
“Was America Born Capitalist?”: On John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity”
LARB presents an excerpt from “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon” by Daniel T. Rodgers.
It’s Up to Us: A Roundtable Discussion
Kellye Garrett interviews Walter Mosley, Barbara Neely, Gar Anthony Haywood, Kyra Davis, and Rachel Howzell Hall.
Future Fiction
Sarah LaBrie wonders what a fiction that focused on our place in the world, rather than on our desire to flee from it, might look like.
On Reading Jonathan Gold
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft remembers Jonathan Gold, who helped him fall in love with Los Angeles.
“We Go On”: On the Poetry of Hugo Williams
Declan Ryan appreciates the “emotional endurance and arrested constancy” of Hugo Williams, whose first book of poems appeared in 1965.
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