Memories of the Skin: Shizu Saldamando’s Portraits
Reflections on queer punk art and performance....
The People in the Trees
What might convince us that forest defense and self-defense are the same?...
The Hazards of Good Fortune, Part XV
Part XV of Seth Greenland’s novel “The Hazards of Good Fortune,” forthcoming from Europa Editions on August 21, 2018....
To Endure the Void: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” Trilogy
Josie Mitchell surveys the “autofictional” project of Rachel Cusk, which reaches its end with “Kudos.”...
Yuri Tynianov’s “Film — Word — Music” (1924)
Vera Koshkina and Ainsley Morse present “Film — Word — Music,” a 1924 essay on film by the great Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov....
“The Terror of History”: On Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade
Philip Ó Ceallaigh unravels the complicated relationship, in life and fiction, between Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade....
Democracy by Numbers
The challenges of partisan gerrymandering are not new, nor is the hope that mathematics can offer a cure....
A Public Voice for Private Grief
A global survey of official inquiries into the phenomenon of sexual abuse....
Digital Detox: Big Tech’s Phony Crisis of Conscience
A critique of neoliberal panaceas for social media addiction....
Waves of Mutilation: An Excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America’s Most Infamous Family”
LARB presents an excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.”...
The Hazards of Good Fortune, Part XIV
Part XIV of Seth Greenland's novel “The Hazards of Good Fortune,” forthcoming from Europa Editions on August 21, 2018....
When a Rock Is a Stone: Finding “Spiral Jetty”
Louise Steinman goes in search of artist Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty.”...
