Everything is about Trump now, whether it wants to be or not. There’s no fact more central to our consciousness, no event more pressing: if the president of the United States is a fascist, then nothing, here, can remain untouched by that reality.
Literary critic Angus Fletcher died on November 28, 2016. His friends, contemporaries, and former students remember him.
From Captain America to Ms. Marvel, Amy Ongiri looks at the venerable tradition of punching Nazis.
Carl Abbott on what science fiction can tell us not only about the city of tomorrow, but also today.
Ron Rosenbaum on what the media can learn from the prescient "Munich Post."
On how the NFL achieved "corporate transcendence" and what the era of Kapernick means for it.
Nancy M. West wonders if we can watch British period drama in the same way after Brexit.
Wai Chee Dimock on the oceans of "Moana" and Jack London.
Leah Mirakhor interviews Riad Sattouf about the award-winning graphic memoir trilogy “The Arab of the Future” and his career in France.
Emmett Rensin on the imaginative poverty of today's political punditry.
Marta Figlerowicz on the solipsistic suffering on display in Scorsese's "Silence."
Jacob Mikanowski shares a few lessons about a vanishing Eastern Europe.
Moderated by LARB film editor Anna Shechtman, the discussion brought together voices from film studies, film criticism, and Hollywood film production.
Caroline Eden appreciates the work of Rabindranath Tagore, a songwriter who won the Nobel Prize decades before Bob Dylan was born.
Are we in an era of great religious art?
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