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For Whom Is Campus to Be Safe?
Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives.
Saree MakdisiMay 10, 2024
War Without End
The horrors of Israel's carnage in Gaza jump out of the pages of Blumenthal's chronicle "The 51 Day War."
Sonali KolhatkarSep 22, 2015
- Politics
Below Zero
LARB contributor Ben Ehrenreich reports on his recent trip to Gaza City.
Ben EhrenreichApr 20, 2014
Meteor, Star, Galaxy, Caven
LARB presents a new essay by Erika Balsom, excerpted from Fireflies Press’s edited collection “Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction,” publishing this September.
Erika BalsomAug 31, 2024
- Biography & Autobiography
- Film
Displays of Faith: On Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout”
Courtney Tenz reviews Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout: A Memoir of Doubt.”
Courtney TenzMar 18, 2024
The Human and the Holy: On Sarah Ghazal Ali’s “Theophanies”
Adedayo Agarau reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s “Theophanies.”
Adedayo AgarauJan 16, 2024
Urban Transgression and the Female Flâneur: On Leesa Gazi’s “Good Girls”
Torsa Ghosal reviews the English translation of Bangladeshi British author Leesa Gazi’s novel “Good Girls.”
Torsa GhosalDec 31, 2023
Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice”
Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with Cristina Rivera Garza about her book “Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice.”
LARB Radio HourMar 24, 2023
The Radical Opening of the Human and Black Love in Amazon’s “Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds”
Bernabé S. Mendoza reviews a collection of SF stories that includes work by Nnedi Okorafor, Nisi Shawl, and Victor LaValle.
Bernabé S. MendozaJun 11, 2022
- SF
An Amazon of the Avant-Garde: On Lynn Garafola’s “La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern”
A well-researched biography of a neglected major choreographer of avant-garde dance.
Harlow RobinsonMar 24, 2022
- Biography & Autobiography
Returning the Gaze
Margot Mifflin reviews Catherine McCormack’s “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies.”
Margot MifflinJan 23, 2022
- Art & Architecture
In a Lonely Place: On Gaito Gazdanov’s “An Evening with Claire”
Phoebe Roberts plumbs the profound loneliness of “An Evening with Claire” by Gaito Gazdanov, translated from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk.
Phoebe RobertsNov 24, 2021
- Fiction
Panic in the City: On Duncan Birmingham’s “The Cult in My Garage”
Satirical short stories find sentiment and solace in L.A.’s superficial surfaces.
Gabriel HartNov 11, 2021
- Fiction
The Noosphere Gazette: On Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge”
An open-access, verifiable, digital knowledge base would potentially enable a major flowering of the human mind.
Kathelin GrayJul 31, 2021
- Nonfiction
The Adjunct Gaze
Two new novels grapple with the precarity of women’s labor in contemporary academia.
Grace LindenJul 14, 2021
- Fiction
Letter to the Editor: Gavan Titley Responds to Stephen Rohde
Gavan Titley responds to Stephen Rohde’s review of his book, “Is Free Speech Racist?”
Gavan Titley, Stephen RohdeMar 28, 2021
- Law