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Here Comes Everything!
Dinah Lenney and Arne De Boever Interview Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost
Arne De Boever, Dinah LenneyNov 5, 2015
- Nonfiction
- Philosophy & Religion
“Room” Is the “Crash” of Feminism
Just as "Crash" was a racist exercise in trying to exorcise racism, "Room" is a misogynistic exploration of the suffering misogyny causes women.
Sarah BlackwoodNov 4, 2015
- Cultural Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
Surrounded by Souvenirs of Life: A Conversation with John Biguenet
Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais interview John Biguenet
Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin RabalaisNov 3, 2015
“Half an Inch of Water” by Percival Everett
Rattlesnake bites, wild horses, and mountain snowstorms—these stories, in their restless traversal of the American West, cut through the fabric of everyday life to examine what lies beneath it. Check out our Winter 2015 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Half an Inch of Water” by Percival Everett.
Nov 2, 2015
A Second View: “The Third Man” from Eye Level
"The Third Man" has been meticulously restored to provide a cinematic experience as close as possible to that of the film’s first audiences.
Martin ZirulnikNov 1, 2015
- Film
- Noir
What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Love and Theft in the 21st Century
"Buried not very far under the critique of racial theft is a privileging of African-American expressive culture as a resource in and of itself."
Jonathan FreedmanNov 1, 2015
- Literary Criticism
Antique Nightmares
2015 will be remembered as a major year in the history of horror podcasts.
Jason BoogOct 31, 2015
- Cultural Studies
The Melancholy of Patrick Modiano
GD Dess writes about the legacy of Nobel Prize–winner Patrick Modiano.
GD DessOct 30, 2015
- Fiction
Paul Ryan and the “Moral Case” for Capitalism
Paul Ryan has had to disavow Ayn Rand repeatedly, unreservedly, and, above all else, entirely.
John Paul RollertOct 29, 2015
- Politics
An Excerpt from “Part of Our Lives”
In "Part of Our Lives," Wayne Wiengard tells the story of the relationship between the American Public Library and the American people.
Wayne A. WiegandOct 28, 2015
- Nonfiction
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself: A Visit to the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival
The Aspen Ideas Festival is an annual weeklong gathering of scientists, scholars, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, writers …
Ian MacAllister-McDonaldOct 28, 2015
- Memoir & Essay
Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive
Translated by Adam Briscoe
Edouard Louis, Geoffroy de LagasnerieOct 25, 2015
- Philosophy & Religion
BILLIONAIRES AND SUPER-STORMS
The eye of the super-hurricane was reported to have come ashore at Cuixmala, where English robber baron Sir James Goldsmith built his Xanadu.
Mike DavisOct 24, 2015
- Politics
The Home of Language
"The Hebrew language is particularly layered — an infrastructure of biblical, cultural, and political roots."
Joanna ChenOct 21, 2015
- Around the World
All Is Permitted, All Over Again: Oliver Ready’s Translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was.
Boris DralyukOct 18, 2015
- Literary Fiction
Power, Powerlessness, Thinking, and Future
Translated by Daniel Ross
Bernard StieglerOct 18, 2015
- Philosophy & Religion