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Medicine and Activism in George Eliot’s “Quarry for Middlemarch”
How one of the greatest English novels emerged from research into a disease outbreak.
All Essays
Renga Spring 2020
Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr share a renga in the time of coronavirus
The Dialectical Filmmaker: On Judd Apatow’s “The King of Staten Island”
Is Judd Apatow a Hegelian?
Monumental Ignorance: How Donald Trump Misuses Imagery
Trump turns traditional America iconography inside out
Racism, Cop Curriculum, and Campus Safety
Why don’t we train police officers in anti-racism?
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2020
LARB presents the August installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Right There in Blank and White
Megan Ward investigates the relationship between blankness and whiteness
Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, and the Language of Black Speculative Literature
Hope Wabuke considers the future of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.
What You Need To Do
Shayla Lawson on the pivotal role of Black women in contemporary politics
L.A. Hallucinations: The Spiritualism of "Better Things"
Phillip Maciak on friendly ghosts, ordinary hauntings, and why Pamela Adlon's Better Things is the best show on television.
Love and Courage, or On Being a Literary Editor in Today’s Istanbul: A Conversation with Mustafa Çevikdoğan and Mehmet Erte
Two major literary editors discuss the publishing scene in contemporary Turkey.
The Conspiracy on Pushkin Street: The Costs of Humor in the USSR
Jonathan Waterlow considers the high cost of humor under repressive regimes.
How Defunding Abusive Institutions Goes Wrong, and How We Can Do It Right
Defunding the police and prisons won’t work if we defund it like we did mental institutions in the 1960s.
Makeshift Refuges: Edith Wharton’s Home-Building
Throughout her life and her work, Edith Wharton struggled to find a secure and lasting sanctuary.
A Plea for Isabella
Lucas Barron explores the contradictions inherent in “Columbus’ Last Appeal to Queen Isabella” and its removal from the California State Capitol.
Posthuman Fascism
Samir Gandesha on how today’s fascisms break from the past.
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