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A Week Occupied by ICE, or How Close Does the Violence Become
Rhys Langston reports from Los Angeles.
All Essays
Reactionary Futurism 2025
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
Teapot Dome Pitch Meeting: Edward Doheny, Albert Fall, and Cecil B. DeMille
In the fifth installment in an ongoing series, LARB founder Tom Lutz reflects on the convergence of politics and cultural power in early Hollywood.
May the Ratings Be Ever in Your Favor
As Lionsgate ramps up filming the newest “Hunger Games” prequel adaptation, Jazmine Agregado revisits the franchise’s popular indictment of our attraction to violent on-screen spectacle.
He’s a Cretin but We’ll Manage Him
Paul North finds a prescient analysis of the end of the American republic in Karl Marx’s essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”
“Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo
Dive into a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement in the LARB Book Club Summer 2025 pick “Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo.
There Is No Such Thing as Green Capitalism
David Shipko explores climate denialism in speculative literature and culture.
Alt-Media, Then and Now
Aaron Boehmer discusses the visual language of underground and alternative newspapers and how they subvert mainstream media through design.
We Don’t Have Any Reserves
Adam Morgan writes on the impact of Trump’s coup at the NEA for small publishers and literary magazines.
AI Nightmares: Rise of the Dead Souls
Michael Berry sees warning signs of the creep of AI into education and translation work.
Avenging Angels
Travis Alexander considers what Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity” can teach us about Luigi Mangione and the insurance crisis.
Saving the NEH
Dr. Norrell Edwards considers the Trump administration’s termination of National Endowment for the Humanities grants.
A Certain Reputation It Cannot Be Denied
Victoria Horrocks re-remembers Vanessa Bell.
Rising from Her Verses
In a preview from LARB Quarterly no. 44, “Pressure,” Sophia Stewart explores the poetry and politics of Julia de Burgos.
Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests
In the eighth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Pepper Stetler explores the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.
The Paradox of the Second Person
Nathan Wainstein reexamines Naughty Dog’s 2020 game “The Last of Us Part II.”
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