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De-Centering Arendt: On the First Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works
A new critical edition of the eminent philosopher’s works speaks to modernity, anxiety, and the isolating effect of politics.
All Essays
The Labor of Being Believed
What the Harvey Weinstein trial has to show us about men’s believability in the #MeToo era.
The Provincial Reader
Sumana Roy reflects on the loss — or the proliferation — of the provincial reader.
Moral Convictions: An Interview with David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe
Eleanor Bader speaks to David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, authors of “Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.”
Safer at Home
Emma Rault on what it means to be safe at home.
The Death and Life of Blond Ambition: Madonna’s Entrancing Contradictions
Quinn Roberts explores the entrancing contradictions of Madonna’s legacy.
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."
The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation
Brad Evans curates a series of reflections by leading thinkers on the pandemic and its consequences.
Innocence to the Extreme: An Interview with Cannes Best Director Winners Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Eileen G’Sell talks to the award-winning directors about their newest film, "Young Ahmed."
Process Stories, or Who Loves the Sixers?
Phil Maciak considers Yaron Weitzman's "Tanking to the Top," the mythology of Sam Hinkie's Process, and his own life in exile as a Sixers fan.
Our Age of Sincere Inauthenticity
The route to authenticity is paved with artifice.
O Jerusalem, If I Should Forget You
A trip through Israel reveals the siege mentality — and the paradoxical openness — that has been with the modern Jewish state from the beginning.
Altered States
LARB presents an excerpt from Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee,” an Object Lesson out this month from Bloomsbury.
Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between Anne Charnock and James Bradley
James Bradley and Anne Charnock discuss what it’s like to write fiction in the age of climate catastrophe.
“Chorela” Quarantine (Odessa, 1975)
A Hungarian scholar of Russian literature looks back on her experience in quarantine under Soviet rule.
The Feminine Ending: On Women’s Writing in Yiddish, Now Available in English
Madeleine Cohen greets new English translations of women authors who wrote in Yiddish.
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