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A Conversation Between Timothy Morton and Jeff VanderMeer
Novelist Jeff VanderMeer and philosopher Timothy Morton explore literature, climate change, hyperobjects, surrealism, coffee, and shedding cats.
All Essays
Dave McKean: “Black Dog”
Dave McKean, well known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, has a new book that purports to be the dream life of modernist painter Paul Nash.
Eight Days in North Korea
An essay by Junko Terao about her tour of North Korea.
Rereading John Fante’s “Ask the Dust”
Rob Sternberg on the pleasures of rereading John Fante.
Allegorical Knowledge: The Art of Alchemy
Johanna Drucker reviews two new exhibits at the Getty, “The Art of Alchemy” and “The Alchemy of Color.”
Virus, Coal, and Seed: Subcutaneous Life in the Polar North
“We’ve got the largest collection of agricultural biodiversity in the world here, where there aren’t any farms or gardens or trees.”
How to Become a Famous Media Scholar: The Case of Marshall McLuhan
Jefferson Pooley on the unlikely career of Marshall McLuhan, and the Luddite message of “The Mechanical Bride.”
Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool
Slave states gave us the Electoral College; we should get rid of this vestige of the so-called peculiar institution.
“King Lear” at the Stationers, Again: A Response to Brian Vickers
Holger S. Syme on Brian Vickers on Holger S. Syme on Brian Vickers.
LARB Lit: Persistence in Practice
Dispatches from a Cambodian Literary Festival
Cambodian literary culture is alive and well, and sometimes visits Cambodia.
Miami Melancholia
The world depicted in “Moonlight” is an internal colony, abandoned by the state’s supposed benevolence, and stuck serving its ends through suffering.
What We’ve Got Here: “Arrival”
What is "Arrival" saying?
LARB Lit: The Future Mayor of Los Angeles is Currently on Adderall
The World According to Stanisław Lem
Ezra Glinter surveys the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.
Michael Lewis and the Narrative Nonfiction Formula
Cody Delistraty profiles Michael Lewis and contemplates the limits of the narrative nonfiction formula.
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