“Secrets & Sisterhood” and the Burden of Afghan Representation
Azeta Hatef reviews the Hulu reality show “Secrets & Sisterhood:The Sozahdahs."
Azeta Hatef reviews the Hulu reality show “Secrets & Sisterhood:The Sozahdahs."
Azeta HatefNov 12, 2023
Maya Hayda reviews Chang Yuchen’s “Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019–2022.”
Maya HaydaNov 4, 2023
Rona Cran reviews “The Upstate” by Lindsay Turner.
Rona CranNov 4, 2023
Jeevika Verma reviews Terrance Hayes’s “So to Speak” and “Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry.”
Jeevika VermaOct 29, 2023
A. C. Huyen reviews Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
A. C. HuyenOct 27, 2023
Brandon R. Grafius reviews Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work.”
Brandon R. GrafiusOct 25, 2023
Summer Farah interviews Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck about “We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage.”
Summer FarahOct 25, 2023
C. Francis Fisher reviews Elisa Gonzalez’s “Grand Tour.”
C. Francis FisherOct 21, 2023
Emily Collins reviews Leslie Sainz’s “Have You Been Long Enough at Table.”
Emily CollinsOct 8, 2023
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 39 “Air,” Michelle Chihara interviews Lawrence Weschler about his ancestry, his relationship to Los Angeles...
Michelle ChiharaOct 6, 2023
Salem James Martinez reviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars.”
Salem James MartinezSep 29, 2023
Weiling Deng considers Zai Liang’s “From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States.”
Weiling DengSep 23, 2023
Samuel C. Huneke takes Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke” to task.
Samuel Clowes HunekeSep 17, 2023
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The...
Dave MandlSep 9, 2023
Hazem Fahmy reviews “The Kingdom of Surfaces” by Sally Wen Mao.
Hazem FahmyAug 28, 2023
Chloe Xiang reviews “Mass for Shut-Ins” by Mary-Alice Daniel.
Chloe XiangAug 4, 2023
Olivia Stowell reviews Michael Szalay’s “Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas & the Reinvention of Television.”
Olivia StowellJul 29, 2023
David N. Myers reviews Max Czollek’s “De-integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century.”
David N. MyersJul 10, 2023
Vivian Medithi reviews McKenzie Wark’s “Raving.”
Vivian MedithiJun 29, 2023
Liz Wolfson profiles Katie Heindl, author of the sports Substack “Basketball Feelings.”
Liz WolfsonJun 10, 2023
Jordan S. Carroll reviews Robert Guffey’s “Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump” and Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko’s “Pastels and...
Jordan S. CarrollDec 31, 2022
On its 75th anniversary, Jason Resnikoff revisits the World War II documentary “Thunderbolt” and how it captures the relationship between filmmaking...
Jason ResnikoffDec 28, 2022
Isabelle Lang and Laura Valenza revisit the 1990s feminist revenge plot and its bearing on today’s domestic violence laws.
Isabelle Lang, Laura ValenzaNov 25, 2022
José Luis Benavides reviews “Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon” by Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs, with translations by Alice L...
José Luis BenavidesNov 21, 2022