The Art of Dissent
A documentary filmmaker and historian discusses his new film about Czech dissidents under the communist regime....
How to Be Persuasive
Savy Janssen looks at "A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America."...
The Only One Left: A Conversation with James Lloydovich Patterson About Grigori Aleksandrov’s “Circus”
Sasha Razor interviews James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Soviet mother who became a Soviet actor and author....
A Constitution, If You Can Keep It
Stephen Rohde looks at Ellis Cose’s “Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America.”...
First-Person Plural: On Mark Nowak’s “Social Poetics”
Margaret Ronda reads “Social Poetics” by Mark Nowak....
How to Be Annoying
Joseph Hogan reviews “A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America” by Brian F. Harrison....
An Outsider’s Perspective Inside the United States
Savy Janssen looks at "America through Foreign Eyes," the recently published book by Jorge G. Castañeda....
The Nine Lives of Modernization Theory
A new book about Eastern Europe’s turn to the right gets it so wrong....
Her Sentimental Properties
White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk....
Recuperating Humanity: On John Washington’s “The Dispossessed”
American foreign policy created a refugee problem that it is too callous or inept to solve....
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2020 — Part II
LARB presents the second, all–Bob Dylan edition of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Owning the Asphalt
Joseph Giovannini praises the protestors who took back the streets from the Landlord-in-Chief....
