Confronting the Unwatchable
Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer on our unwatchable era.
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer on our unwatchable era.
Maggie Hennefeld, Nicholas BaerJul 17, 2019
Kieran Setiya takes a serious look at “Humour” by Terry Eagleton.
Kieran SetiyaJul 4, 2019
Jennifer Wilson, Hilah Kohen, Julia Phillips, and Fiona Bell discuss new approaches to writing about Russia.
Fiona Bell, Hilah Kohen, Jennifer Wilson, Julia PhillipsJun 28, 2019
Dubravka Ugrešić reflects on today’s Europe and its crises.
Dubravka UgrešićJun 26, 2019
Eleanor J. Bader speaks to David Forbes, author of “Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation.”
Eleanor J. BaderJun 23, 2019
Ilan Stavans narrates the rediscovery of Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s long-lost memoir.
Ilan StavansJun 20, 2019
Does violence make humans unique? Melinda Baldwin reviews Erika Lorraine Milam’s “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America.”
Melinda BaldwinJun 16, 2019
William Flesch reviews "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure."
William FleschJun 7, 2019
The dean of American music critics on his late friend, public intellectual Marshall Berman.
Robert ChristgauMay 27, 2019
LARB presents an excerpt from “Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism” by Geert Lovink.
Geert LovinkMay 20, 2019
Bonnie Johnson reports from the 43rd annual Society for Utopian Studies Conference.
Bonnie JohnsonMay 15, 2019
"A kind of emptiness makes the green spaces of The Spheres feel more like a branding move on Amazon’s part than a facility to be used by actual...
Sheila LimingApr 26, 2019