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How to Destroy a Creative Industry (And How to Save It)
Alessandro Camon discusses the WGA/SAG strike as a turning point for Hollywood.
Economics and Finance
Illicit, Offshore, Shadow, Invisible: Financial Thrillers and Global Capital
In a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 38: Earth, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara explores the opaque world of global finance.
The Future of Futures: On Kalshi and Prediction Markets
Addis Goldman and Max Hancock trace the genealogy of Kalshi, a prediction market that trades in a range of futures.
Contraction: When Hollywood Gets Smaller
J. D. Connor writes about the writers’ demands in the WGA strike in Hollywood, and about how movies about contracts relate to a downturn in production. Are we entering an era of contraction?
Rigged Capitalism and the Rise of Pluto-populism: On Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”
Jonathan Kirshner reviews Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.”
Economies of Human Trafficking: A Conversation with Melissa Hope Ditmore
Eleanor J. Bader speaks with Melissa Hope Ditmore about her new book “Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy.”
The Professional Utopians: On J. Bradford DeLong’s “Slouching Towards Utopia”
Andrew Koppelman reviews J. Bradford DeLong’s “Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.”
How to Be a Poverty Abolitionist: On Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America”
Paul W. Gleason reviews Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America.”
How We Learned to Love “Free” Markets
Rebecca L. Spang reviews Jacob Soll’s “Free Market: The History of an Idea” and Stefan Eich’s “The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes.”
A Revolutionary Hate to Salvage Utopian Love: On China Miéville’s “A Spectre, Haunting”
Hugh Charles O’Connell reviews China Miéville’s “A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.”
Eat, Pray, Know When to Hold ’Em: A Profile of Annie Duke
LARB’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Chihara, profiles the elusive pokergenius–turned-author Annie Duke.
The Funnel and the Horn: On Reinventing James Cameron’s “Avatar”
J. D. Connor analyzes how cultural shifts in the relationship between movies and money made James Cameron’s initial record-breaking blockbuster “Avatar” somewhat forgettable while the Disney marketing machine is now going to try to reinvent the franchise
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