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Magical Thinking: On Mikhail Epstein’s Expansive History of Recent Russian Thought
Josh Billings surveys Mikhail Epstein’s monumental survey of late and post-Soviet thinkers.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
A Tribute to bell hooks
bell hooks’s friends and colleagues remember the author, who passed away on December 15.
A Philosopher in Hard Times
Samantha Rose Hill traces Hannah Arendt’s intellectual biography.
A Neuroscience of Strange Gods
Lisa Miller’s book “The Awakened Brain” examines the neuroscience of spirituality.
Break the Great Chain of Being: On “Becoming Human” and “Being Property Once Myself”
Brigitte Fielder reviews recent books by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Joshua Bennett.
The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100
Wittgenstein’s early opus exerted a huge influence on literary modernism.
The Aesthetics of the Void: On Brad Evans’s “Ecce Humanitas”
Reconceiving the sacred, and the violence it authorizes, for a secular age.
We Can Do Better: On Richard Rorty’s “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism”
Michael S. Roth examines Richard Rorty’s “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.”
Control Everything: On Hartmut Rosa’s “The Uncontrollability of the World”
Paul J. D’Ambrosio finds meaning in “The Uncontrollability of the World,” the new book from Hartmut Rosa.
Mapping the Social in Theory and Practice
Michael Eby appreciates “Investigative Aesthetics,” the new book by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman.
Whom?: On Frédéric Gros’s “Disobey!”
A guide to disobedience that leads us into the woods.
When the Towers Fell
LARB presents a symposium reflecting on 9/11, curated and introduced by Brad Evans.
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