Richard Eldridge looks at three recently published books to decide whether our democracy can be salvaged....

Is capitalist society nothing more than a series of random acts of senseless violence?...

Mark Fisher’s final lectures offer a bracing anatomy of neoliberal capitalism and glimmers of its utopian end....

A new essay by Brian Lin from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No.29....

Max Haiven on why Biden quoting Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" is emblematic of neoliberalism's revenge politics....

An anthology of Chicanx literature dazzles....

Gregor Baszak talks with Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett about their recently published book, "The Upswing."...

Uilleam Blacker is captivated by “‘Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul’: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry.”...

Adam Kelly reviews the latest book from William Davies, "This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain."...

Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli discusses literature and life under de facto house arrest....

Bryan A. Garner considers "What’s Your Pronoun?," the recently published book by Dennis Baron....

LARB presents the February 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....

Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...

A celebrated Croatian cultural critic exposes the thin skin of contemporary democracy....

An anthology of African American literature arrives right on time....

Carter Brace considers the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa massacre....

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated novelist on the Trump-inspired invasion of the US Capitol....