:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202003vigil.jpg)
Port of Last Call
Christine Gross-Loh reviews Jeffrey Wasserstrom's new book, "Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink."
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Rise of AI-Capitalism: An Interview with Nick Dyer-Witheford
Brian Justie interviews Nick Dyer-Witheford about his recently co-authored book, “Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism.”
An Epic Struggle for Mastery of a Subcontinent
Priya Satia reviews William Dalrymple's "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire."
Undercover Lovers, or How The CIA Became Style
Greg Barnhisel considers how our stories about the Cold War are evolving from politically urgent realist narratives to a narrative convention itself.
The Voices from Inside: On “Prison Truth”
A history of a California prison newspaper says a lot about changing attitudes toward the incarcerated.
The Merit Machine
A new book by a Yale Law professor exposes and critiques American meritocracy.
Dread and Disunity in Las Vegas: A Report from the Nevada Caucuses
LARB politics editor Tom Zoellner reports from the Nevada caucuses.
Democracy’s Concrete Court
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park.
Out of the Waiting Room of History: Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema of Partition
Swagato Chakravorty on the rediscovery of Ritwik Ghatak’s films, and what it says about how Western cultural institutions frame the idea of world cinema.
A Personal Journey: On “Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World”
A political memoir of 15 years spent in exile.
Confessions of a Weapon: On Being a TV Chat Show Host in Iran
Former talk show host Paul Ingram talks about his time in Tehran.
Room After Room in “The Report”
Hilary Plum considers "The Report," Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s "Guantánamo Diary," and who gets to depict torture.
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202003JustieDyerWitheford-1.png)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002theanarchy.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202003BarnhiselWhitePrescott.png)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002prisontruth.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002themeritocracytrap.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002NV-Caucuses.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002ChakravortyGhatak.png)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002exile.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202002PlumTheReport-1.png)