The Headless Woman: On Susan Taubes and Clarice Lispector
On two major 20th-century women novelists and their shared experience of exile....
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2021
LARB presents the February 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Subverting the Canon of Patriarchy: Lesya Ukrainka’s Revisionist Mythmaking
Sasha Dovzhyk celebrates the radical feminism of the great Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka on the 150th anniversary of her birth....
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”...
Star Vehicle: On Translating Poetry
Polish poet Tomasz Różycki reflects on his craft of translation, in an essay translated by Mira Rosen-thal....
Sarah Moss’s Anxiety Chronicles
Tara K. Menon looks at the novels of Sarah Moss, detailing how she has become one of the writers who best captures contemporary unease....
Greenwood at 100
Carter Brace considers the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa massacre....
A History of Cyberpunk Comics
David M. Higgins and Matthew Iung consider the complicated history of cyberpunk comics....
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Wendy S. Walters on Catastrophe, 2020, and the Work of Alan Ruiz and Bahar Behbahani
Collisions between the real and imagined world seem inevitable, and it makes sense that artists would be offering new ways to think about this phenomenon....
The Political Economy of Chappelle’s Redemption Songs
Matt Seybold on what Dave Chappelle's return tells us about celebrity and corporate power....
Labyrinths: The Films of Milla Jovovich and Paul W. S. Anderson
R. Emmet Sweeney details the collaboration of writer-director Paul W. S. Anderson and actress Milla Jovovich....
Listening for the Caribbean on "The Crown"
Sasha Ann Panaram seeks out the easily skipped, potentially transgressive soundtrack playing at the edges of Netflix's The Crown....
