Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
David Weinberger on the problems of Cass R. Sunstein's "#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media."...
A Guardian of Good Usage and Grammar
Don Franzen talks to Bryan A. Garner, one of the most prolific and respected arbiters of grammar and usage in the English language....
One Mystery Will Solve Another: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “The Fact of a Body”
Alice Bolin on Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s hybrid of true crime and memoir, “The Fact of a Body.”...
Cruel but Not Unusual: Putting Down the Attica Uprising of 1971
Mary F. Corey on Heather Ann Thompson's Pulitzer Prize–winning "Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy."...
An Arduous but Triumphant Journey
Elaine Elinson on Susan Burton and Cari Lynn's "Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women."...
Banality of Evil Redux
Imagine Adolf Eichmann was never prosecuted for his war crimes. Instead, he wrote a book....
Torture: On the Wrong Side of History
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the new book by James E. Mitchell, the creator of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques....
A “Christian Nation” with an Enlightenment Constitution
Alyson Claire Decker reviews Geoffrey R. Stone's "Sex and the Constitution."...
“What Are You Doing Here, Sister?”
Originally published in the LARB Quarterly Journal: No. 14, Special Legal Issue Become a member to receive the LARB Quarterly Journal I. IN THE BEGINNING, there was a plane; 22 hours in flight, and two layovers, and finally, finally, ...
Grandfathers and Child Molesters
Writing about a pedophile and murderer led Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich to write about her own family....
The Consciousness of Death: An Interview with David Lida
Simon Schatzberg interviews David Lida about his novel “One Life” and his work as a mitigation specialist in Mexico....
Word Power
Brian K. Goodman on Timothy Garton Ash's "Free Speech."...
