The People in the Trees
What might convince us that forest defense and self-defense are the same?...
Waves of Mutilation: An Excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America’s Most Infamous Family”
LARB presents an excerpt from Jeff Melnick’s “Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.”...
Delightful Listening: A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen with Arundhati Roy
Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel “The Sympathizer” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, speaks to novelist Arundhati Roy....
The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold
Michael Jaime-Becerra offers his thanks to legendary food writer Jonathan Gold....
Unforgettable, Unrememberable: The Thammasat Massacre in Thailand
Testifying to a right-wing massacre of students in 1976 Thailand....
Fighting to Live: Vancouver’s Battle for Safe Injection Sites
Eleanor J. Bader talks to Travis Lupick, author of "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction."...
On Motherhood and Murder: A Conversation with Nancy Rommelmann
“Our obligation as journalists is to follow the hard stories where they want to go, to construct the story with the care it demands.”...
A Different Backstory for Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Rebecca Panovka explores the background of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo.’”...
“A Lovely Grave for Learning”: Exhuming the Dead of Guatemala’s Genocide
A journey into the mass graves of Guatemala....
“When I Was Alive”: William T. Vollmann’s Climate Letter to the Future
“Vollmann is less interested in how we imagine the future than in how the future imagines us.” Ted Hamilton on William Vollmann's "Carbon Ideologies."...
“Don’t Take Away the Flavor”: Exploring the Here and Now of L.A. with Lynell George
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with Lynell George about her new book, "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame."...
“Having Repeatedly Supped with the Devil…”: The Strange Muses of John Gilmore
Anthony Mostrom writes about the life of noir author and gonzo journalist John Gilmore....
