To Walden: On Lawrence Buell’s “Henry David Thoreau” and Robert D. Richardson’s “Three Roads Back”
Todd Shy reviews Lawrence Buell’s “Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently” and Robert D. Richardson’s “Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau...
Todd Shy reviews Lawrence Buell’s “Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently” and Robert D. Richardson’s “Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau...
Todd ShyNov 7, 2023
Jamie Peck reviews “The George Floyd Uprising” by Vortex Group.
Jamie PeckNov 6, 2023
Thom Sliwowski reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s “Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia.”
Thom SliwowskiNov 6, 2023
Meredith Maran reviews Caitlin Moran’s “What About Men? A Feminist Answers the Question.”
Meredith MaranOct 30, 2023
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Corina Zappia considers the state of travel for single women.
Corina ZappiaOct 27, 2023
Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”
Chris YogerstOct 26, 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
Julien Crockett interviews Robert M. Sapolsky, author of “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.”
Julien CrockettOct 22, 2023
Arundhati Roy accepts the Charles Veillon Foundation’s 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement.
Arundhati RoyOct 21, 2023
Deborah Coen pushes back against one part of Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate” by arguing that what constitutes...
Deborah R. CoenOct 17, 2023
Julia Lindsay reviews Joy Sanchez-Taylor’s “Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color.”
Julia LindsayOct 8, 2023
Jerrine Tan visits a LOVOT robotics lab and is unexpectedly enchanted.
Jerrine TanOct 4, 2023
Tyler McBrien reviews Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.”
Tyler McBrienOct 3, 2023
Through analysis of Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence” and Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to...
Isabel RuehlSep 28, 2023
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 39: “Air,” Katie Kadue breaks down the misogynist history of the rape joke.
Katie KadueSep 25, 2023
Émile P. Torres describes how it was not the dropping of the atom bombs in 1945 but the testing of a nuclear bomb is the Marshall Islands in 1954...
Émile P. TorresSep 20, 2023
Noah Rawlings reviews John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa.”
Noah RawlingsSep 15, 2023
Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Naomi Klein about her new book,“Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
Michelle ChiharaSep 14, 2023
Krzysztof Pelc mostly agrees with Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” but quibbles...
Krzysztof PelcSep 13, 2023
Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Cathy Park Hong.
Michelle ChiharaSep 12, 2023
Elaine Elinson reviews George Black’s “The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam.”
Elaine ElinsonSep 9, 2023
Avram Alpert reviews Bernard Harcourt’s “Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory.”
Avram AlpertSep 7, 2023
Historian Daniela Blei beautifully captures the essence of Uwe Wittstock’s newly translated “February 1933: The Winter of Literature.”
Daniela BleiSep 6, 2023
Julie Morrison reviews Daniel Asa Rose’s “Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New...
Julie MorrisonAug 23, 2023