Leaving Your Lane: A Conversation with Lydia Otero
Tom Zoellner talks to Lydia Otero about her new account of a young adulthood in Los Angeles, “L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir”...
Tom Zoellner talks to Lydia Otero about her new account of a young adulthood in Los Angeles, “L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir”...
Tom ZoellnerNov 13
Hannah Bonner looks at Elisabeth Subrin’s documentary, “Maria Schneider, 1983,” alongside Vanessa Schneider’s memoir, “My Cousin Maria Schneider.”...
Hannah BonnerNov 9
Thom Sliwowski reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s “Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia.”...
Thom SliwowskiNov 6
Ayden LeRoux reviews Sophia Giovannitti’s “Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex.”...
Ayden LeRouxNov 3
Mariella Rudi reviews Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles.”...
Mariella RudiNov 2
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Dan O’Brien finds symbols of life and faith in the theater....
Dan O’BrienOct 30
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Corina Zappia considers the state of travel for single women....
Corina ZappiaOct 27
A. C. Huyen reviews Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”...
A. C. HuyenOct 27
Arundhati Roy accepts the Charles Veillon Foundation’s 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement....
Arundhati RoyOct 21
Tamara MC reviews Guinevere Turner’s “When the World Didn’t End.”...
Tamara MCOct 9
Erik Gleibermann interviews Safiya Sinclair about her memoir “How to Say Babylon.”...
Erik GleibermannOct 4
Ada Wordsworth reviews John Freedman’s anthology of works by Ukrainian playwrights, “A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War.”...
Ada WordsworthOct 3
Tahneer Oksman reviews Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.”...
Tahneer OksmanOct 2
Does nostalgia for the old East Berlin come from a deeper longing for socialism?...
Matthew LongoOct 1
Through analysis of Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence” and Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and Stories that Make Us,” Isabel Ruehl contemplates the role of storytelling in perpertuating mental illness....
Isabel RuehlSep 28
Farah Ahamed on how men reacted to her book about menstruation—by explaining menstruation....
Farah AhamedSep 24
Mikkel Krause Frantzen explores emotions at the end....
Mikkel Krause FrantzenSep 23
Sumana Roy on how the vernacularization of the English language has affected Indian political and cultural life....
Sumana RoySep 22
Colin Flynn remembers learning from David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Lethem....
Colin FlynnSep 15
Noah Rawlings reviews John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa.”...
Noah RawlingsSep 15
Daniel Olivas talks with Myriam Gurba about her new book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions.”...
Daniel A. OlivasSep 5
Joel Cuthbertson defends the creative writing MFA as an educational, not a vocational, enterprise....
Joel CuthbertsonSep 2
Craig Childs reviews Tom Zoellner’s “Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona.”...
Craig ChildsAug 27
Julie Morrison reviews Daniel Asa Rose’s “Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert.”...
Julie MorrisonAug 23