Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation
Brad Evans curates a series of reflections by leading thinkers on the pandemic and its consequences.
Adrian Parr, Brad Evans, Brian Massumi, Camille Dungy, Chantal Meza, Cynthia Enloe, David Theo Goldberg, Eugene Thacker, Eyal Weizman, George Yancy, Henry A. Giroux, Jack Halberstam, Jake Chapman, Julian Reid, Kehinde Andrews, Lauren Berlant, McKenzie Wark, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Roberto Esposito, Russell Brand, Saidiya Hartman, Simon Critchley, Simona Forti, Todd May, Wendy BrownApr 14, 2020
Our Age of Sincere Inauthenticity
The route to authenticity is paved with artifice.
Frank BergonApr 12, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Altered States
LARB presents an excerpt from Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee,” an Object Lesson out this month from Bloomsbury.
Dinah LenneyApr 12, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Nonfiction
Among the Athenians: A Conversation with Grace Elizabeth Hale
Andrew Holter talks with Grace Elizabeth Hale, writer of “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.”
Andrew HolterApr 11, 2020
All in This Together?: On Grace Elizabeth Hale’s “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture”
Jeff Melnick considers the rise of alternative music in the American South, as discussed in Grace Hale’s new hybrid ethnography-memoir, “Cool Town.”
Jeff MelnickApr 11, 2020
Watching Television in a Pandemic
TV is producing a “new normal” for us in these strange times, and it can incite us to ask what new productions might emerge.
Lynne JoyrichApr 8, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Television
The Pursuit of Clarity in a Time of Plague
Stephen Marche ponders the current plague and its untold, untellable stories.
Stephen MarcheApr 7, 2020
A Diary of Social Distancing
Amit ChaudhuriApr 6, 2020
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies
COVID and Community
From the early days of the pandemic, Steven Shapin on the ways COVID-19 requires us to care for each other and our communities.
Steven ShapinMar 30, 2020
Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz’s “Latinx Literature Now”
Renee Hudson considers Ricardo L. Ortiz's "Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event."
Renee HudsonMar 24, 2020
Creating a Bridge: A Conversation with Susan Harris, Editorial Director of “Words Without Borders”
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses the importance of translation with Susan Harris, editorial director of "Words Without Borders."
Azareen Van der Vliet OloomiMar 12, 2020
Rhetorical Questions: On “Long Live Latin” and the Evolution of Style
Will Boast roams through Nicola Gardini’s “Long Live Latin,” translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz.
Will BoastMar 10, 2020