Politics

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

“Our Own Madness, Our Own Absurd” (Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw)
Caryl Emerson ponders "Fourteen Little Red Huts" and the moral visions of Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw.
Caryl EmersonOct 30, 2019
Narrative Economies
Chang-Min Yu reviews Joseph Jonghyun Jeon’s volume on Korean cinema and its rendering of global economic logics through film language and narrative.
Chang-Min YuOct 28, 2019
Privilege Nostalgia: Reading Beckett During Brexit
What does the central role of literary disinheritance in Beckett's work teach us about those who voted for Brexit?
Eva KennyOct 26, 2019
Bosnia’s Mosques Without Muslims
The rebuilding of destroyed mosques is Bosnia is one part of a long project of genocide prevention.
Maxim Edwards, Michael ColborneOct 24, 2019
- Around the World
- Politics
The Carceral Invasion: On Brett Story’s “Prison Land”
A prison is less a maze of walls than “a set of relationships,” argues filmmaker Brett Story in a follow-up book to an acclaimed film.
Mark TreckaOct 19, 2019
- Politics
Picking Children’s Pockets: An Interview with Dina Nayeri
A personal story about fleeing the Iranian Revolution is also an indictment of Western immigration policy.
Scott BurtonOct 17, 2019
“Before I Began”: On the Wisdom of Not-Knowing
Emmalea Russo reviews Cynthia Cruz’s “Disquieting: Essays on Silence.”
Emmalea RussoOct 17, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Your Spot on the Wall: An Introduction to “Graffiti”
LARB presents Elmaz Abinader’s introduction “Graffiti,” the inaugural anthology from artist collective POC United, published this week by Aunt Lute Books.
Elmaz AbinaderOct 16, 2019
- Around the World
- Politics
Letter to the Editor: Jenny Brown Responds to “Anti-Labor Politics”
Jenny Brown responds to Meredith Goldsmith, Anna Kryczka, and Catherine Liu’s “Anti-Labor Politics,” and the writers respond to her criticism.
Anna Kryczka, Catherine Liu, Jenny Brown, Meredith GoldsmithOct 15, 2019
- Gender & Sexuality
- Politics
Black No More?
Cinque Henderson looks at "Self-Portrait in Black and White" by Thomas Chatterton Williams.
Cinque HendersonOct 15, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Decline and Fall of American Democracy?
Don Franzen reviews Edward Watts's "Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny."
Don FranzenOct 14, 2019
How to Forget: On Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past”
Sebastian Stockman reviews Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting.”
Sebastian StockmanOct 14, 2019
- History
- Politics