Politics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
Tim BrinkhofAug 24, 2024
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Breeding for IQ
Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
Emily R. Klancher MerchantAug 22, 2024
Election Desk 2024: Unquiet Spirits
Heather Kenny takes the temperature around the DNC in the first dispatch from LARB’s Election Desk.
Heather KennyAug 21, 2024
- Politics
Infinite, Fragmented Anguishes
Tess Pollok interviews Aria Dean about her collection “Bad Infinity,” Afropessimism, police brutality, and Black radical thought, on the one-year anniversary of the book’s release.
Tess PollokAug 15, 2024
From Circle to Square
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement.
Benjamin NathansAug 11, 2024
- History
- Politics
What Should We Remember About the 1960s?
Charles J. Holden reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
Charles J. HoldenAug 8, 2024
- Politics
- History
Moving Towards Life
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
Marina MagloireAug 7, 2024
- Poetry
- Politics
Building a Public Energy Commons
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
Ashley DawsonAug 6, 2024
Antisemitism Studies and the War Against the Imagination
Safa Khatib considers theories of Judaism, antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism in her review of “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism” by Jonathan Judaken.
Safa KhatibAug 4, 2024
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire?
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
Benno WeinerAug 3, 2024
Egyptian Factories, Sichuan Schools, and the Unfilled Promises of Globalization
Adam Minter reviews Leslie Chang’s “Egyptian Made” and Peter Hessler’s “Other Rivers.”
Adam MinterJul 31, 2024
Words Versus Words, Fire with Fire
Chris Featherman considers the crafting of global warming and environmental crisis narratives in his review of “The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It” by Genevieve Guenther.
Chris FeathermanJul 30, 2024