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Make America Mayberry Again
The fictional town of Mayberry provides a clue to the root of our national poison, and show us how we picked the wrong lawman.
All Essays
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2020
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
My Taco Laughs at You: On Death Threats Aimed at Women of Color Who Don’t Fellate White Supremacy
When telling the truth is dangerous. Threats to women of color online and in real life.
It’s Between Us: Lukas Bärfuss’s Georg Büchner Prize Acceptance Speech
Tess Lewis translates Swiss author Lukas Bärfuss’s Georg Büchner Prize acceptance speech.
The Old in the New: Introducing “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish”
Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert introduce their new anthology, “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.”
America Is Hard to See
As much as it is a portrait of Steve Bannon, "American Dharma" is also a story about the political and media class’s hypnotism by apocalyptic visions.
“Lights, Camera-maids, Action!”: Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema
Gordon and Grimm consider how the camerawoman fought for relevance and visibility in the days of early cinema and ask why we continue to forget her.
Normality Becomes Madness: Trauma in Contemporary Nordic Speculative Fiction
Katie Smith looks at three recent books to consider how Nordic SF writers grapple with trauma through highly experimental prose.
The Earth Died Screaming
What Tom Waits has to teach us about the coming global catastrophe.
Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and American Jews
Peter Dreier surveys the long history of the black-Jewish alliance for civil rights.
The Proliferation of Profilicity
From the Chinese Social Credit System to Facebook and Airbnb, what to make of our new era of profilicity.
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Yxta Maya Murray on Artists’ Responses to 9/11
Reeling from 9/11 but working on projects begun during the Clinton boom, some artists in 2002 were still able to romanticize millenarianism and the future.
“Doctor Sleep”: How Kubrick Outshines the King
Does Mike Flanagan's adaptation of "Doctor Sleep" balance the visions of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King?
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
A short story by J.D. Daniels from the LARB Weather Issue about camping in the snow, shoveling snow, and dreaming of Death Valley.
Day Moon
Film After Auschwitz: On Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird”
Marta Figlerowicz considers "The Painted Bird," Václav Marhoul's adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's infamous novel.
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