Egypt and the Enemy Within
Carol Berger and Marie-Jeanne Berger report on recent developments in Egypt, in the wake of attacks on security forces and civilians.
All Essays
On Sabina Ott’s Social Practice
“Israel Potter”; or, the Excrescence
On Melville’s neglected “epic of the piecemeal.”
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season One
Dear TV puts together a tight ten on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the specter of a Rory-less Gilmore Girls, and Woody Allen.
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You feel, when Sviatoslav Richter is playing, as if this music will be heard once, and then dissolve forever.
Toward a Humor-Positive Feminism: Lessons from the Sex Wars
Building a humor-positive feminism.
Philosophy Needs a New Definition
Costica Bradatan says we need a Sufi master (or Plato) to enlarge our understanding of philosophy.
Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century
Joanna Walsh on loving books in the 21st century.
Free-Range Horror
Jason Middleton on Stephen King's "It" and the "era of the ubiquitous missing child."
“The Problem with Apu” and the FCC
Meenasarani Linde Murugan on how the broadening of South Asian media representations could be threatened by the FCC's decision on net neutrality.
The Impossibility of Children’s Cinema: On Todd Haynes’s “Wonderstruck”
"'Wonderstruck' turns its child protagonists into taxidermy." Jill Richards on Todd Haynes's latest.
A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire
Natalie Diaz on the indigenous body in art.
“The Obama Inheritance” by Gary Phillips
Robots of doom, Supreme Court clones, and scheming lizard people—this curated collection of short stories offers deliberately fantastical twists on the conspiracies and fictions spun around the Obama adminstration. Check out our Winter 2017 pick for the LARB Book Club: “The Obama Inheritance” edited by Gary Phillips.
The Engineers and the Political System
In a way that was never the case for previous generations, engineering today is politics, and politics engineering.
Will We Ever Talk Pretty?: David Sedaris and the American Struggle with Foreign Languages
Colin Marshall contemplates David Sedaris’s experiences with language-learning.
The Guy in the Kitchen
Susan McCallum-Smith and Andrew O’Hagan discuss Julian Assange, Bitcoin, the invention of Ronald Pinn, and O'Hagan's latest book, "The Secret Life."
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