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In Defiance of Staying in One’s Lane: On Edna O’Brien’s “Girl”
Charles Taylor is moved by Edna O’Brien’s new novel, “Girl.”
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Failed Utopias: On Johannes Anyuru’s “They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears”
Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Johannes Anyuru's "They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears," translated by Saskia Vogel.
“How the Hell Did It All Come to This?”: The Political Noirs of Jean-Patrick Manchette
Tom Roberge peers into the dark world of French noir author Jean-Patrick Manchette.
Wonder Worlds: Nature Art Books Are Illustrating What We Have to Lose
Sara Scribner explores three lushly illustrated nature books by European authors that describe what nature does when humans aren’t around.
“Logic Alone, All Love Laid by”: Returning to Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon”
Maya Chhabra plunges into Philip Boehm’s new translation of the original version of “Darkness at Noon” by Arthur Koestler.
Call Her by His Name: Caterina Albert and Catalonia’s Tradition of Radical Women
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Kathleen McNerney about writer Caterina Albert and generations of women writers in Catalonia.
Meat Is Murder: On Olga Tokarczuk’s “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reads the polemical and blackly humorous “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by celebrated Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk.
An Exercise in Redemption: On Deirdre Bair’s “Parisian Lives”
In her new memoir, Deirdre Bair defends her biographical research and writing.
Vasily Grossman: Myths and Counter-Myths
Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan demythologize the life of Vasily Grossman.
Lonely White Men: On Michel Houellebecq’s “Serotonin”
Louis Betty reacts to “Serotonin” by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Modernity Regained: Bolivar Echeverría and the Utopia of the Baroque
The work of a major Latin American social theorist is finally available in English translation.
Who Needs Literature?
LARB presents an essay by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated from the Yiddish by David Stromberg.
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