Mailer in Miami
Norman Mailer was a pundit of the back rooms who slung observations of how candidates moved through the world.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Kids Want Communism: A Conversation with Joshua Simon
Joshua Simon talks about his years-long art project that celebrates the archival histories of communism.
Teaching American Studies in the Middle East
Suzanne Enzerink on teaching American culture and politics in Lebanon.
Home in the Hinterlands: On Robin Hemley’s “Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood”
A reporting trip to topographical curiosities sheds light on what it means to be a world citizen.
De-Centering Arendt: On the First Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works
A new critical edition of the eminent philosopher’s works speaks to modernity, anxiety, and the isolating effect of politics.
The Labor of Being Believed
What the Harvey Weinstein trial has to show us about men’s believability in the #MeToo era.
Moral Convictions: An Interview with David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe
Eleanor Bader speaks to David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, authors of “Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.”
Free Money for Surfers: A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income
How cash transfers became the default response to economic shocks.
Listening to the Darkness: On Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers”
L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at "This Brilliant Darkness," the new book from Jeff Sharlet.
Work on the Dark Side: An Inside Look at Guantanamo
Michael Rapkin, attorney for numerous Guantanamo detainees, reviews "A Place Outside the Law" by Peter Jan Honigsberg.
The Fire and the Fizzle
Jerald Podair reviews "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," a new history from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener.
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."
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