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The Headless Woman: On Susan Taubes and Clarice Lispector
On two major 20th-century women novelists and their shared experience of exile.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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.”
Moving Houses: A Conversation with Zenobia Frost
Kate Durbin interviews Zenobia Frost about her new book, “After the Demolition.”
Ted and Sylvia
A newly translated novel by a major Dutch author tackles the relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
On the Limits of Sexual Freedom: Vanessa Springora’s “Consent: A Memoir”
A searing French memoir gives voice to a victim of sexual abuse, and provokes a crisis of conscience in the country.
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