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A Bid for History: On Leah Price’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books”
Colton Valentine talks about “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books” by Leah Price.
Colton ValentineDec 18, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- Nonfiction
But Are You Sure?: On Kristen Roupenian’s “You Know You Want This: ‘Cat Person’ and Other Stories”
Colton Valentine reviews Kristen Roupenian's short story collection "You Know You Want This" and finds there's more to it than "Cat Person" retreads.
Colton ValentineMar 27, 2019
- Fiction
LARB Radio Hour: Three Cynics and a Funeral
Join LARB editors Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman for a special Valentine’s Day episode.
LARB Radio HourFeb 15, 2019
Toward A Different Solution: Édouard Louis, Émile Zola, and the Literary Accusation
Benjamin S. Bernard and Colton Valentine on “Qui a tué mon père” (Who Killed My Father), a novel by French author and public intellectual Édouard Louis.
Benjamin Bernard, Colton ValentineAug 2, 2018
Transformation and Non-Adventure in Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station
Ben Valentine reviews Ashley Shelby's "South Pole Station."
Ben ValentineFeb 17, 2018
Into Openness
Brian Teare interviews Jean Valentine.
Brian TeareNov 28, 2015
- Poetry
"And I Will Seek You": East of the Sun, West of the Moon
In the latest edition of our Fairy Tale Series, Genevieve Valentine considers the unusual Norwegian folktale, “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.”
Genevieve ValentineMar 21, 2014
Eating to Live: On Yiyun Li’s “The Book of Goose,” Lu Min’s “Dinner for Six,” and Xiaolu Guo’s “A Lover’s Discourse”
Anjum Hasan reviews three recent novels relating to China: Yiyun Li’s “The Book of Goose,” Lu Min’s “Dinner for Six,” and Xiaolu Guo’s “A Lover’s Discourse.”
Anjum HasanJul 19, 2023
- Fiction
The Madeleine’s Metapragmatics: On Michael Lucey’s “What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk”
When your dinner-party host offers you a madeleine, how do you respond, and why?
Colton ValentineApr 14, 2022
- Literary Criticism
Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture
Yevgeniy Fiks’s new book offers a rare glimpse into the Soviet Union’s ideological views on race and Blackness.
Sarah ValentineFeb 7, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Songs for a Winter’s Night: “A Treasury of Wintertime Tales”
The folklore tradition has particularly deliberated on winter across generations and genres; there’s perhaps no season that’s clung to its pagan roots quite so tenaciously. Christmas.
Genevieve ValentineDec 23, 2014
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Fairy Tale Series: On Norway's “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”
Genevieve Valentine, Leslie Stephens, Shana Mlawski, Tim J. MyersMar 21, 2014