A harrowing memoir about a woman’s tragic death from the vantage of her surviving spouse. Intense and highly controversial, this book raises an essential question: who has the right to narrate someone else’s life? Check out our Spring 2024 pick for the LARB Book Club: “Molly” by Blake Butler.
Bob Blaisdell examines the public life of autofiction icon Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Kim Gordon relays the mythos surrounding her late brother in an excerpt from her upcoming book for LARB Quarterly, no. 40: “Water.”
Jayson Buford outlines and itemizes late-capitalist life in New York for the new issue of LARB Quarterly.
Los Angeles booksellers choose their favorite books of 2023.
Alex Harvey examines the life and music of jazz legend Dexter Gordon.
Olivia Giovetti surveys memoirs about the opera diva Maria Callas, on the centenary of her birth.
Peter Lunenfeld traces the persistence of classic con games in the current explosion of cryptocurrency markets.
A new poem from Zeina Hashem Beck.
Dorie Chevlen presents a LARB Quarterly essay so relatable that Everybody.World made it a T-shirt.
Lori Gallegos outlines the contributions Latinx philosophers have made to the ethics of immigration.
Elizabeth Brake explores the way philosophy allows us to name injustices, and thereby work to rectify them.
Julie E. Cooper explores the collapse, in the wake of October 7, of traditional Zionist narratives about the presumed protections of the Jewish nation-state.
J. D. Connor explains what Fox’s game show “Snake Oil,” Disney’s film “Haunted Mansion,” and NBC’s crime series “The Irrational” have in common.
Four Palestinian poets write in a time of catastrophe.
Kate Manne argues that contemporary philosophy has a trans problem.
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