Emily LaBarge

Emily LaBarge is a Canadian writer living in London, where she teaches at the Royal College of Art.

Squeezing the Slave Out Drop by Drop: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business”
Emily LaBarge on the pleasures of reading Vivian Gornick rereading.
Emily LaBargeFeb 19, 2020
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay
Pain as Revolution: On Anne Boyer’s “The Undying”
Emily LaBarge reviews Anne Boyer's memoir/meditation on the personal and cultural experience of cancer.
Emily LaBargeOct 25, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing
Emily LaBarge reviews Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias.”
Emily LaBargeMar 3, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
We Have More in Common Than We Know
To read "Translation as Transhumance" is to transhume with Mireille Gansel as she cultivates a multidimensional understanding of language.
Emily LaBargeDec 31, 2017
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
Delectatio Morosa: On Fleur Jaeggy’s “These Possible Lives”
Emily LaBarge is transported by “These Possible Lives,” a collection of essays by Fleur Jaeggy.
Emily LaBargeAug 7, 2017
How to Be Torn-Between
Emily LaBarge reviews Durga Chew-Bose's "Too Much and Not the Mood."
Emily LaBargeApr 13, 2017
- Memoir & Essay

Squeezing the Slave Out Drop by Drop: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business”