Cracked, Costly Fantasies
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Dan O’Sullivan traces the legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
Dan O’SullivanJun 28, 2025
Laurie Winer assesses Damion Searls’s new translation of “The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation” by Charlotte Beradt.
Laurie WinerJun 26, 2025
Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone's ostensibly airless spaces in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Emmeline CleinJun 24, 2025
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
Christopher T. FanJun 24, 2025
Doyle D. Calhoun visits “Black Paris: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000” at the Centre Pompidou.
Doyle D. CalhounJun 8, 2025
L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
L. Benjamin RolskyJun 8, 2025
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
Guobin YangJun 7, 2025
Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”
Joshua D. RothmanJun 3, 2025
Michael Bobelian considers the renewed relevance of “Under Cover,” Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld.
Michael BobelianJun 3, 2025
Kelly Hammond reviews Stephen R. Platt’s “The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II” alongside other new work about East Asia in World War II.
Kelly HammondMay 30, 2025
Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.”
Kiese LaymonMay 28, 2025
Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”
Devin Thomas O’SheaMay 27, 2025