Relationship Counseling for the Apocalypse
A new memoir about how to sustain relationships with others, the planet, and ourselves....
The Convenient Villain
What "Unhinged" reveals is Omarosa’s knack for making her ambition, however ugly or severe, as exhilarating to watch as a horror movie....
Frozen as the Oceans Rise: On “We’re Doomed. Now What?”
Sharon Kunde challenges Roy Scranton’s fatalist view of climate change....
A Mind in Transit: Marina Benjamin on Insomnia
A memoir on the liminal state of sleeplessness and “mind wandering.”...
Korean Pastoral: On Yeon-sik Hong’s “Uncomfortably Happily”
Yeon-sik Hong’s delightful and challenging graphic memoir "Uncomfortably Happily" at once seems to adhere to the Western pastoral tradition and to upend it...
The Hard-Earned Lessons of a Born Maverick
The highs and lows of the feminism movement, as seen through the eyes of one of its leaders....
The Killer Inside Jonathan Ames
On Jonathan Ames, from "City Slicker" to "You Were Never Really Here."...
The Making of (New) Americans: On Kevin Killian’s “Fascination”
ONE THING ABOUT the New Narrative writer Kevin Killian is that everyone who knows him, even a little, seems to love him unreservedly. Mention to people in your MFA program that you’re reviewing a Kevin Killian book and you’ll ...
Portrait of a Middle-Class Butch Academic
Alexis Clements reviews Esther Newton’s “My Butch Career,” a memoir of the early life and career of an important pioneer in the field of LGBTQ Studies....
The Work of Historical Witness: Józef Czapski’s “Lost Time” and “Inhuman Land”
Andrew Schenker celebrates the recovery of “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp” and “Inhuman Land” by Józef Czapski....
Pursuing the Truth: An Introduction to Józef Czapski's “Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941–1942”
LARB presents Timothy Snyder’s introduction to Józef Czapski's “Inhuman Land,” translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published by NYRB Classics today....
A Small but Important Job: Gary Indiana’s “Vile Days”
Andrew Marzoni does a deep dive into the collected writings of Gary Indiana, looking at the man, the culture, and the era that produced him....
