A behind-the-scenes account of Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria, this book looks with fresh eyes at a well-known moment in history, dismantling the myth of an effortless victory. Check out our Fall 2018 pick for the LARB Book Club: “The Order of the Day” by Éric Vuillard, translated by Mark Polizzotti.
LARB presents an excerpt from “The Origins of Dislike,” a new collection of essays by Amit Chaudhuri.
Maya Vinokour considers dictatorial “gigantomania,” from Stalin’s White Sea-Baltic Canal to Trump’s THE WALL.
A side-by-side reading of a French philosopher and a pair of American political scientists.
Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.
Surrealism versus escapism in a new roleplaying game.
An up-close look at a rare peaceful revolution in Putin’s shadow.
"Why does David Foster Wallace read differently to me now? Why am I ashamed of him? Maybe his work is limited in ways I didn’t see before." A DFW guy writes
GD Dess probes the meaning of emptiness in the novels of Peter Stamm.
Bryan Rennie and Philip Ó Ceallaigh exchange views on Mircea Eliade and antisemitism.
On brain trauma, Budweiser, Steamin' Willie Beamen, and the blurring of Colin Kaepernick's dissent.
How the neoliberal rhetoric of "choice" has made it harder to raise children.
The disappointing art of murderabilia.
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