Democracy by Numbers
The challenges of partisan gerrymandering are not new, nor is the hope that mathematics can offer a cure.
All Essays
A Public Voice for Private Grief
A global survey of official inquiries into the phenomenon of sexual abuse.
Digital Detox: Big Tech’s Phony Crisis of Conscience
A critique of neoliberal panaceas for social media addiction.
Waves of Mutilation: An Excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America’s Most Infamous Family”
LARB presents an excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.”
When a Rock Is a Stone: Finding “Spiral Jetty”
Louise Steinman goes in search of artist Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty.”
A Kitchen Window Peepshow: Eating Wildly and Traveling Widely with Lesley Blanch
Caroline Eden relishes the food writing of Lesley Blanch, author of the recently republished “Journey into the Mind’s Eye.”
Pose(r): Ryan Murphy, Trans and Queer of Color Labor, and the Politics of Representation
Alfred Martin explores the limits of representation on FX's Pose...
The Useless French Language and Why We Learn It
Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books.
The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold
Michael Jaime-Becerra offers his thanks to legendary food writer Jonathan Gold.
Betty Davis, Grace Jones, and the Art of Anti-Confessional Cinema
Daphne Brooks on "Betty: They Say I'm Different" and "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami."
Reverse Cowboy
Disentangling fact from myth in the figure of the American cowboy.
García Márquez Slept Here
A writer discovers a surprising history to her apartment and its connection to the Latin American Boom in literature.
More Than a Body: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago
All of Ivan Albright’s portraiture contains the same obsessively rendered detail and relentless fascination with how grotesque the human body can be.
Naomi Hirahara’s Los Angeles
Mike Sonksen profiles Naomi Hirahara, author of the Mas Arai mystery series.
Caring for Capitalism
"The Bleeding Edge" is a contemporary portrait of how a misguided quest for innovation is eroding the forms of connection that make us human.
The Bad Idea That Keeps on Giving
Why does such a thinker as Ayn Rand persist in being taken seriously by otherwise smart people?
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