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Waste of Space
Alex Weintraub reviews "Ad Astra."
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
What’s Love Got to Do with It? On “Pride and Prejudice” and “Fanny Hill”
Emily Janakiram rethinks our romantic attachments to the “love stories” of John Cleland’s “Fanny Hill” and Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
Looking for Léontine: My Obsession with a Forgotten Screen Queen
Professor and programmer Maggie Hennefeld explores the world of forgotten silent film actresses and archivists’ struggles to rediscover lost film art.
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.
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