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The Battle for Love
In a preview of “LARB Quarterly” no. 38: “Earth,” Camila Fabbri considers what forever means, as translated by Robin Myers.
All Essays
Thorns, or The Things That Humans Do in the Name of Care That Are Something Other Than Care
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 38: Earth, Juliana Spahr explores the end.
Buried in the Sand: On John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock” and Japanese America
Jonathan van Harmelen offers a historical account of the undersung, at times controversial, anti-racist western, John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock.”
Playing with Nature: On “Tears of the Kingdom” as Ecofiction
Martin Dolan reviews the video game “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” as a work of ecofiction.
Illicit, Offshore, Shadow, Invisible: Financial Thrillers and Global Capital
In a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 38: Earth, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara explores the opaque world of global finance.
The Banality of Heroism: Marek Edelman and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Samuel Tchorek-Bentall explores the career of Marek Edelman, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Translation and the Terebinth: On Translating Meir Shalev
Joanna Chen writes about the pleasures of translating work by the late Israeli writer Meir Shalev.
Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness
J. D. Connor ponders how AI is transforming the media landscape, the law, and our lives.
From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence
W. J. T. Mitchell asks, What kind of intelligence does AI actually represent?
The New Hellenism
Crispin Sartwell takes us inside a movement that is transforming the discipline—and public reception—of philosophy.
Deep Is the Well: On Mark Jenkin’s “Enys Men” and a Cinema of Absence
Thomas M. Puhr discusses absence in cinema, specifically art horror, through a philosophical lens and Mark Jenkin’s film “Enys Men.”
Machine Voice: Programmer Fiction
Many decades before generative AI, the writer J. M. Coetzee actively engaged with machine voices, says Andrew Dean, and also grappled with the perils of “automatism,” as he called it, the tendency of language to reproduce itself.
The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado explains why humanities scholars need to articulate a more robust defense of their disciplines.
Monica’s Garden: Notes Towards “A People’s History of Theology”
Ed Simon argues for the necessity of a theoretical “People’s History of Theology.”
The Future of Futures: On Kalshi and Prediction Markets
Addis Goldman and Max Hancock trace the genealogy of Kalshi, a prediction market that trades in a range of futures.
Sex and Social Isolation: The Writing Sex Series During COVID-19
Jonathan Alexander reflects on the interviews he conducted for LARB’s Writing Sex series.
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