More Death: On Mushroom Hunting and the Novels of Daša Drndić
Angela Woodward considers how hunting mushrooms can illuminate Daša Drndić’s fiction.
All Essays
Democracy’s Concrete Court
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park.
Out of the Waiting Room of History: Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema of Partition
Swagato Chakravorty on the rediscovery of Ritwik Ghatak’s films, and what it says about how Western cultural institutions frame the idea of world cinema.
A Strange Equality in His Grandiosity: On Craft and Milan Kundera
Reading Milan Kundera is much less like reading philosophy or theory than it is like watching a psychological chess master play himself.
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2020
LARB presents the February installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
The Shell Game: From “Get Out” to “Parasite”
Juxtaposing "Get Out" and "Parasite" raises uneasy questions about how American audiences process racial injury versus economic injury.
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Greg Allen Reviews Artists in the Americas in 2005
Greg Allen looks at three artists who exposed their respective experiences within Latin American, immigrant, and US cultures.
LACMA, Part III: The Way Forward
Joseph Giovannini concludes his analysis of Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA.
Here’s to Life with Tori Reid, Episode 02: Phylicia Rashad - What Makes Phylicia, Phylicia?
A conversation with actress Phylicia Rashad...
Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir
Elizabeth Wurtzel changed how we think about memoir — and mental illness.
LACMA, Part II: Spamming the Public
Joseph Giovannini continues his analysis of Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA.
The Death Drive at 100
Peter Brooks on the centennial of Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle.”
Confessions of a Weapon: On Being a TV Chat Show Host in Iran
Former talk show host Paul Ingram talks about his time in Tehran.
Room After Room in “The Report”
Hilary Plum considers "The Report," Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s "Guantánamo Diary," and who gets to depict torture.
The Unchanging Joe Biden
A portrait of Joe Biden’s inner life can be seen in a book written 32 years ago.
Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”
Charles Taylor explores the historical and cinematic resonances of Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, “Motherless Brooklyn.”
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