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Assaults and Batteries
Nicolas Niarchos digs up the hidden costs behind your rechargeables.
Economics and Finance
It’s Bad Out There
Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ takes an ax to the job-search grind.
The Artist Is Present (Online)
Sophie Bishop’s new book tracks the pressures artists face to conform their ‘brands’ to the demands of the algorithmic boss.
A Fiction of Global Terror
Timothy Rideout’s new book shows how precarity among the middle and working classes powers the fears at the heart of 21st-century gothic literature.
An Emergency Born of Prosperity
Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.
Making a Killing
Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.
Party Lines and Bottom Lines
Martin Laflamme traces the history and future of globalization through three recent books on China’s techno-nationalism.
The Point, However, Is to Change It
In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.”
Ways and Means
Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”
Conspiracism, Nationalism, Decline
Sarah Brouillette reviews Jamie Merchant’s “Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline.”
Medicine and Lucre
While looking at three recent books, physician Luke Messac explains why the public has legitimate reasons to distrust our healthcare system.
Archive Fever: Los Angeles Review of Books’ Post-Election Roundup
In light of the election, LARB editors present a selection of archival pieces that reveal what we know (and do not) about ourselves as a nation.
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