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A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
"Before we can throw bricks through windows, we need to be able to get out of bed." Mikkel Krause Frantzen on the politics of depression.
All Essays
Amtrak Kerouac
A recovering addict pays tribute to a literary hero at his tomb in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Conrad and Coal
The exploitative mining of coal was central to Conrad’s critique of colonial capitalism.
A Death on the Frontier
A tale of addiction, a treasure hunt, and generations of American Dreams.
After the Fall: Revisiting 1989 in a New Age of Walls
Matthew Longo considers the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall and the sociopolitical implications of it — both now and then.
On (Not) Reading the Mueller Report
Katherine Voyles dissects the odd phenomenon of the Mueller Report: how Americans seem to purchase it at extreme levels, but do not seem to read it.
On Walter Benjamin’s Legacy: A Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno
Susan H. Gillespie and Samantha Rose Hill translate the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno.
Walter Benjamin’s Last Work
Samantha Rose Hill considers the continent-spanning turmoil that has marked the publication of Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History."
The Fire Files
Claire McEachern writes about escaping the Malibu fires...
Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” and the Banality of Good
Sam Buckland considers Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” as a philosophical photo-negative of Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.”
Is There a Crisis of Truth?
Historian of Science Steven Shapin turns the screw on the notion that “truth” is in crisis.
The Case for Progressive Zionism
Can you be both a Zionist and a progressive?
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “Black Square”
Shifra Sharlin presents 13 ways of looking at Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square.”
Inside the Fashion Cycle
What the fashion cycle teaches us about aging and disposability.
Naguib Mahfouz, Storyteller
What “The Arabian Nights” has to teach us about the compassion — and violence — of stories.
Real Life Rock Top 10: November 2019
LARB presents the November installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
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