What If We Saved Ourselves?
Brian Lin maps out the terrain of racial struggle in the literary world.
Brian Lin maps out the terrain of racial struggle in the literary world.
Brian LinJan 25, 2021
Charles Dunst reviews Anne Goldman's "Stargazing in the Atomic Age," her search for modern Jewish identity.
Charles DunstJan 15, 2021
Is sexual folk art a democratic repository of human creativity?
Houman BarekatDec 22, 2020
On xenolinguaphobia and the provincialism of American Studies.
Ilan Stavans, Steven G. KellmanDec 19, 2020
A lively, handsome new book about the evolution of photographic styles and practices.
George Philip LeBourdaisDec 19, 2020
What memoirs by Melissa Febos, Carmen Maria Machado, and Alisson Wood can tell us about our affective age.
Gila AshtorDec 17, 2020
James Delbourgo considers the ways we've looked at swimming pools over the years.
James DelbourgoDec 14, 2020
Ido Hartogsohn’s new book explores the impact of LSD on postwar American society and culture.
Matthew BondDec 12, 2020
What can Caroline Calloway tell us about media culture, the self-branding industry, gig work, and a growing army of hungry creatives vying for...
Sarah BrouilletteDec 10, 2020
What online games can tell us about our culture of cutthroat competition and rampant inequality.
Brendan MackieDec 10, 2020
Cheap magazine stories may have fueled the way we fought the Vietnam War.
Nicholas UtzigDec 5, 2020
A celebrated Mexican anthropologist explodes one of his nation’s founding myths.
Federico Navarrete, Ellen JonesNov 27, 2020
Two books explore the indelible imprint of Yiddish on modern politics and popular culture.
Marc CaplanNov 23, 2020
Alex Pang thinks he should hate Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell’s book “The Innovation Delusion.” Instead, he wholeheartedly agrees with their main...
Alex Soojung-Kim PangNov 23, 2020
What makes the Pomodoro Technique difficult to criticize is not simply that we need PT-like scaffolds in the realm of freedom.
Alexa HazelNov 21, 2020
Emily Watlington interviews Sun-ha Hong about our data fantasies.
Emily WatlingtonOct 26, 2020
Aida Amoako considers celebrity through Greg Jenner’s history of fame, “Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver...
Aida AmoakoOct 21, 2020
The death of Stanley Crouch leaves America’s intellectual culture less interesting, less imaginative, and, above all else, less artful.
David MasciotraOct 18, 2020
Chelsea Davis puts three films from 2000 in context with the institutionalized support of white, male rage and “aggrieved entitlement.”
Chelsea DavisOct 14, 2020
Robert Diab on William Deresiewicz’s new book, “The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big...
Robert DiabOct 13, 2020
Madeline Lane-McKinley reviews "Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness," the recently published book by Matthew Ingram.
Madeline Lane-McKinleyOct 11, 2020
LARB presents an excerpt from Adam Kirsch’s “The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century.”
Adam KirschOct 8, 2020
On the trail of bigfoot hunters and UFO enthusiasts.
Benjamin Aldes WurgaftOct 7, 2020
Fernando Sdrigotti seeks to break Latin American writers free from the magical realism pigeonhole.
Fernando SdrigottiOct 2, 2020