Real Life Rock Top 10: September 2019
LARB presents “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Punching Down: On Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite”
“Parasite” disrupts as many expectations as possible under limited spatial and temporal conditions, but does it have anything original to say about class?...
Our Truest Loves: On Poetry and Parasocial Relationships
Sophia Stewart considers parasocial relationships through the lens of poetry....
Bewitched by “Olivia”
Kyle Stevens considers the 1951 film “Olivia,” an obscure queer classic from an under-appreciated....
White Fear, Black Grief, and the Horrors of Being Put in a Box: A Conversation with “Luce” Filmmaker Julius Onah and Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Eileen G’Sell interviews the director and star of “Luce” (2019), a tense psychodrama about race, prejudice, and trauma....
Year of the Werewolf
The werewolf was an apt figure for 1981, a moment when prominent commentators worried that many Americans had become too self-focused....
High Visibility: Reexamining “Medium Cool” on Its 50th Anniversary
Piper French on the contemporary resonance of Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool."...
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2019
LARB is happy to announce that it will serve as the new home for “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
(Un)happy Partners: On Jazz and Independent Film
How American independent cinema learned improvisation from jazz....
The Passing of Time: On Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s and Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard”
Melissa Holbrook Pierson is overwhelmed by two great works named “The Leopard.”...
In the Room Where She Happens: On “Late Night”
Annie Berke examines “Late Night” in the contexts of writer-star Mindy Kaling’s public persona and the history of the woman in the writers’ room....
“The Lord of the Rings” as Lodestone: On Dome Karukoski’s “Tolkien”
The new biopic “Tolkien” is perhaps best understood as a prequel to “Lord of the Rings” — that is, to the film adaptations themselves....
