Deprovincializing Criticism: On Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Christopher NewfieldMar 24
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia...
Meena VenkataramananMar 22
Jimmy So analyzes what “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to say about America.
Jimmy SoMar 20
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Katya Apekina about her second novel, “Mother Doll.”
Sasha VasilyukMar 12
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
Noah SparkesMar 2
David N. Myers reviews Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” and Mikhael Manekin’s “End of Days: Ethics...
David N. MyersMar 1
For the Rules We Live By series, Julien Crockett interviews Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon about their new book “Atlas of the Senseable City.”
Julien CrockettFeb 29
Lindsay Chervinsky reviews Katie Rogers’s “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.”
Lindsay ChervinskyFeb 29
Sally McGrane talks to Simon Shuster, the biographer of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Sally McGraneFeb 27
Marius Sosnowski reviews Christopher Hitchens’s posthumous collection “A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration.”
Marius SosnowskiFeb 24
Stephanie Elizondo Griest reviews Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Anthony Alessandrini reviews Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.”
Anthony AlessandriniFeb 7
Joshua Yang reviews two new books on Hong Kong protests—Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin’s “Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the...
Joshua YangFeb 4
LARB presents an excerpt of Lauren Markham’s new book “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
Lauren MarkhamFeb 1
Melissa Chan reviews “Zodiac” by Ai Weiwei.
Melissa ChanJan 30
Christopher Newfield argues that we need a new narrative to combat the US Supreme Court’s right-wing story about racial inequities.
Christopher NewfieldJan 26
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Tlotlo Tsamaase’s “Womb City.”
Jenna N. HancheyJan 23
Crispin Sartwell argues that the Occupy leader seemed to be moving from anarchism to liberalism before his death.
Crispin SartwellJan 20
Conor McCarthy reviews Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory.”
Conor McCarthyJan 17
Gregory Laski reviews Myisha Cherry’s “Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better.”
Gregory LaskiJan 14
Dinyar Patel reviews Ashoka Mody’s “India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today.”
Dinyar PatelJan 11
Jarrod Shanahan reviews Orisanmi Burton’s “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.”
Jarrod ShanahanJan 11
Marcus Lee looks at the new Netflix biopic of Bayard Rustin in the context of his reception and iconography.
Marcus LeeJan 5
A tribute to Palestinian writer and activist Refaat Alareer by poet and scholar Mosab Abu Toha.
Mosab Abu TohaJan 2