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The Crisis of Liberalism, Part I
Henry Wismayer on distinguishing neoliberalism from liberalism.
All Essays
What Charlie Hebdo Taught Me About Freedom of Speech
Jacob Hamburger reflects on his time at the controversial French comic newspaper “Charlie Hebdo.”
The Intimate Spectacle of “Public, Private, Secret”
Zack Hatfield contemplates secrecy as he surveys “Public, Private, Secret,” the latest exhibit at the International Center for Photography (ICP).
Carried Off to the World’s End: A Study of Alice Oswald in Five Parts
Sumita Chakraborty considers “Falling Awake” by Alice Oswald.
Art in the Age of Masculinist Hollywood: Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land”
“La La Land” is in all ways a sunny film, and one that wants badly to please.
In My Father’s Closet: Considering the Jewish Novel, Saul Bellow, and Bruce Bauman
Claire Phillips on Jewish identity, immigration, and the literary descendants of the great Saul Bellow.
Ways of Seeing Japan: Roland Barthes’s Tokyo, 50 Years Later
Colin Marshall looks back on Roland Barthes’s look at Japan in “Empire of Signs.”
Walls, Fences, Frontiers: A Fugitive Essay
Gregory McNamee on the American frontier.
Give Us Today
David Haeselin on the joys of artisanal bread.
Oh, Sancho: The Ongoing Ride of Don Quixote in American Politics
What can Miguel de Cervantes's novel tell us about the "post-truth" era?
The Struggle to Keep the Soul of N’Awlins Alive
Eric Deggans on the documentary "New Orleans Music in Exile," recently released on Blu-ray.
Less Seeming, More Being: On Robert Bresson
“Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoyevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music.” — Jean-Luc Godard.
Politicizing Star Wars: Anti-Fascism vs. Nostalgia in “Rogue One”
Dan Hassler-Forest on the latest Star Wars film.
Heidegger and Anti-Semitism Yet Again: The Correspondence Between the Philosopher and His Brother Fritz Heidegger Exposed
Heidegger’s letters to his brother show him to have been far more committed to National Socialism than his apologists have argued.
LARB Lit: Giraffes
What Some of Our Most Read Essays of 2016 Say About You
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