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In Peru’s Brush with Autocracy, Lessons for the United States
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno shares lessons on autocracy from Peru.
All Essays
Something Is Rotten in the State of Lucis: On “Final Fantasy XV”
The game’s vision of America’s present resembles a familiar dream of America’s past. But is it a fantasy of America with chocobos, or without democracy?
Cybersexism in Three Acts
Richard Grusin reviews Laura Poitras's "Risk," her look at Julian Assange.
What Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt Can Teach Us About Evil Today
What Are We Still Doing in Guantanamo?
Just Like the First Time? Revisiting “Beauty and the Beast” and “Trainspotting”
How does "Beauty and the Beast" express its own status as a fetish object? Sarah Chihaya on the right and wrong way to revisit a franchise.
Promises, Promises: The Strange History of Film and the Armenian Genocide
Michelle Tusan revisits the fraught history of the Armenian Genocide on film.
LARB Lit: The Kindness of the Parking Appeals Office
Notes on “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Becca Rothfeld on the joyous camp of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
Damaging Words: On “Thirteen Reasons Why”
Jonathan Alexander reviews the new Netflix series “Thirteen Reasons Why.”
Celebrity Warfare: Image and Politics in the Age of Trump
Stephen Marche on how reality TV has transformed politics.
LARB Lit: Choose
How to Make a Stubborn Donkey Move: Advice for Writers Under Dictatorship in the Internet Age
Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov reflects on the challenge of writing under a dictatorship.
The Handmaid's Tale, "A Woman's Place"
DearTV discusses the 6th episode of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale...
Embittered Spinster
"Get the word out while there is still time: poetry is fatal, especially to unmarried women." Johanna Drucker on "A Quiet Passion."
Netflix by Netflix: On “Sense8”
"Sense8" might not always be right about technology, but its optimism is viral.
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