Incremental Wins Do Matter
The career of a major human rights lawyer resonates with issues we face today....
Incremental Wins Do Matter
The career of a major human rights lawyer resonates with issues we face today....
Burning Books: Akram Aylisli on Literature and Cultural Memory
Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli discusses literature and life under de facto house arrest....
Blueprint for Masterworks: On Roberto Bolaño’s “Cowboy Graves”
Richard M. Cho digs up “Cowboy Graves,” the recently published collection of novellas by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer....
The Headless Woman: On Susan Taubes and Clarice Lispector
On two major 20th-century women novelists and their shared experience of exile....
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...
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....
Submersion: The Sensory-Heightened Fiction of Elvira Navarro
Nathan Scott McNamara explores “Rabbit Island,” the new short story collection by Elvira Navarro and translated by Christina MacSweeney....
Vulnerable Outsiders: On D. A. Mishani’s “Three”
Alex Genty-Waksberg reviews D. A. Mishani’s “Three,” translated by Jessica Cohen....
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.”...
An Empire of Stupidity: On Dubravka Ugrešić’s “The Age of Skin”
A celebrated Croatian cultural critic exposes the thin skin of contemporary democracy....
Star Vehicle: On Translating Poetry
Polish poet Tomasz Różycki reflects on his craft of translation, in an essay translated by Mira Rosen-thal....
Signs of Life in a Surreal World: A Conversation with Charlotte Mandell on Breton and Soupault’s “The Magnetic Fields”
Paul Maziar talks with Charlotte Mandell about her new translation of Breton and Soupault’s “The Magnetic Fields.”...