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Liberation Utopias: Houria Bouteldja on Feminism, Anti-Semitism, and the Politics of Decolonization
A book that demystifies the fairy tales France tells about itself.
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
Popular Feminism: Structural Rage
Sarah Banet-Weiser's second installment of her bi-monthly column that explores some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism.
“Women with the Gun”: American Women Journalists and the Women’s Battalion of Death
Angela Shpolberg on Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalion of Death, as seen through the eyes of American women journalists.
Come Hell, Come Husbands
Finding solace and strength in Karen Karbo's "In Praise of Difficult Women."
Muscular Sanity: The Language of Pain in Literature
Emily Wells on the language of pain in literature.
Too Much of Not Enough: An Interview with Alenka Zupančič
On sexuality as the link between knowing and being.
Mary Beard Discusses Women, Power, and #MeToo
LARB Law Editor Don Franzen talks to Mary Beard about her new manifesto.
It Takes Many Kinds to Dismantle a Patriarchal Village
Skye C. Cleary interviews Kate Manne, author of "Down Girl."
The King Who Dreamed of Being a Frog: Taylor Mac’s Heretical American History in Song
Barrie Jean Borich on Taylor Mac's "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music," coming to The Theatre at the Ace Hotel from March 15–24.
Forms and Fractures: A Non-Mother’s Hunger for the Writing of Motherhood
I find myself wondering if these motherhood-books are slim as though to offset the terrifying gravitas of mothering itself, or for a more practical reason.
The Gay Conspirators: On Gregory Woods’s “Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World”
Dustin Friedman on Gregory Woods’s “Homintern,” a study of how homosexuals and queer culture shaped the modern world.
Whose Survival Is Wrapped Up in Mine: An Interview with Benjamin Bateman
Alex Espinoza talks with Benjamin Bateman about his new book, “The Modernist Art of Queer Survival.”
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