Stranger Than Something That Is Already Strange: A Conversation with Namwali Serpell
The literary critic turned celebrated novelist discusses her new book, “Stranger Faces.”...
Apocalypse Always: On Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s “Theory for the World to Come”
Sean Guynes evaluates “Theory for the World to Come,” the recently published book from Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer....
The Poet and the Dictionary
The reality of a dictionary never lives up to its promises. It fails language. It also fails poets looking for pure language....
Stanley Crouch, Radical Pragmatist
The death of Stanley Crouch leaves America’s intellectual culture less interesting, less imaginative, and, above all else, less artful....
A Cohort of One’s Own
Frances Lazare considers the friendships and fights of "The Equivalents" by Maggie Doherty and "No Modernism Without Lesbians" by Diana Souhami....
Truths Too Terrible: On Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Kafka
LARB presents an excerpt from Adam Kirsch’s “The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century.”...
Splintered Temporalities: On Cindy Weinstein’s “A Question of Time”
Sharon B. Oster ponders “A Question of Time,” the recently published book edited by Cindy Weinstein....
Between Irritation and Oyster: On Bob Blaisdell’s “Creating Anna Karenina”
Janet Fitch is enlightened by Bob Blaisdell’s biographical study of Tolstoy, “Creating Anna Karenina.”...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Magical Realism
Fernando Sdrigotti seeks to break Latin American writers free from the magical realism pigeonhole....
The Frontiers of Form
Rachael Scarborough King on three books that consider the way forward for New Formalism....
Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books
Reckoning with the ghosts of neglected women authors....
Blackademic Lives Matter: An Interview with Lavelle Porter
Patricia A. Matthew interviews Lavelle Porter about his recent book, "The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual."...
