Hide-and-Seek Amid the Ruins
A mixed-media quest to recover one of the Seven Wonders of the World....
“The Liberal Order Is the Incubator for Authoritarianism”: A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra
Francis Wade speaks to Pankaj Mishra about how the discourse of liberalism and human rights is fatally infected with imperialist histories....
A Native with a Pale Face
Ross Wolfe presents a translation of Ivan Segré’s critical review of “Whites, Jews, and Us” by Houria Bouteldja....
The World Is Not Enough
Jason Barker reviews "A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx."...
Remember to Forget: Patrick Modiano’s “Sleep of Memory”
Patrick Modiano's "Sleep of Memory" manages to attach a feeling not just of unease but of genuine terror to the past....
The Million Trumps of India
India’s business class of the future is already displaying some of capitalism’s worst features....
Pouring One Out for Anthony Bourdain
Olivia Durif on Anthony Bourdain, eating with strangers, and the risks of intimacy....
Hippies in the USSR: An Interview with Juliane Fürst
Sasha Razor interviews Juliane Fürst, curator of “Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture” at the Wende Museum....
A Muslim Founder of the Social Sciences?
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher....
The Fallibility of Memory: An Interview with Frances de Pontes Peebles
A Brazilian-American novelist on the pleasures of historical research, the beauty of the samba, and honoring Carmen Miranda....
A Trokosi Mirror of the US-Mexican Border: On Bernice L. McFadden’s “Praise Song for the Butterflies”
Bernice L. McFadden's "Praise Song for the Butterflies" is short and spare, but its portrait of a child abandoned will haunt readers....
The Turk and the Diplomat: An Introduction to Ivo Andrić’s “Omer Pasha Latas”
LARB presents William T. Vollmann’s introduction to Ivo Andrić’s “Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan,” published by NYRB Classics this month....
