Such Great Heights: Erica Jong’s "Fear of Flying" Turns 40
Forty years after Erica Jong took flight, Dina Gachman considers her legacy …
All Essays
Shades of Cool, Degrees of Kawaii
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein looks at two distant cultural phenomena, African-American cool and Japanese kawaii, and finds a bridge.
Hannah Arendt’s Female Friends
Hannah Arendt and the kinds of friendship.
Sucking on the ’70s: "Hey Rube" and Hunter S. Thompson as Sports Writer
Hunter S. Thompson, the sports writer
Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution
Wearing the wrong hat could get you killed.
The Poems (We Think) We Know: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
The strange history of Howe’s familiar poem Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Aliens in the Homeland
Alienation and ambient anxiety in the surveillance state
“12 Years A Slave”: On Humane Suffering
The reality of slavery’s toll in Steve McQueen's film
Love for the Hernandez Brothers
DEAR TELEVISION
Camus at 100
In honor of the French novelist, essayist, and philosopher
Fiction: New & Noteworthy
LARB Honors 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro
LARB Honors 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro.
Ghost Town, Phantom Dreams: The Last Days of New York
Which 'New York' will Bloomberg leave behind?
In Need of Brains: Notes on AMC’s "The Walking Dead"
The steady decline of 'The Walking Dead'
The Failure of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
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