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A newly translated novel from Argentina explores visual art, social class, and the bonds of family....
Madhav Khosla reviews an exquisite memoir of transience and loss....
A newly translated novel from Argentina explores visual art, social class, and the bonds of family....
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch reviews Nicholas Brown’s “Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism.”...
Janet Sternburg sweeps through the innovative “Figuring” by Maria Popova....
Geoff Nicholson looks at “Life of David Hockney: A Novel” by Catherine Cusset, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan....
Paul Morton follows the line through Saul Steinberg's "The Labyrinth," recently rereleased by New York Review Books....
Megan N. Liberty reviews Olivier Kugler's "Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees."...
The dean of American music critics on his late friend, public intellectual Marshall Berman....
LARB presents an excerpt from “Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism” by Geert Lovink....
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle consider the new occupant of the Iron Throne and what got them there and ask, "But why, though?"...
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak consider the relative madness of the queen(s) on Game of Thrones....
Mikkel Krause Frantzen finds hope in “Excess — The Factory” by Leslie Kaplan, translated from the French by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap....
Tobias Haberkorn asks Nick Srnicek about his recent book, “Platform Capitalism,” monopolies, and planned economies....
“‘How Humans Learn’ is a splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college.” Ryan Boyd reviews Joshua R. Eyler’s new book....
AP tests are overdetermined by liberal ideology that dates back to the 18th century, much of which doesn't meet the diverse needs of 21st-century students....
A newly translated novel from Argentina explores visual art, social class, and the bonds of family....
David Bowman’s posthumous magnum opus is a sprawling roman à clef about midcentury America....
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch reviews Nicholas Brown’s “Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism.”...
While we crave traditional components like complexity, spectacle, and closure, we experience those things only as an endless flow of branded content....
India Mandelkern samples “May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion” by Alison Pearlman....
How the drinking of pulque resists the rhythms of industrial capitalism....
Keetje Kuipers's "All Its Charms" is laced with both hopefulness and the prickling sting of thwarted desire....
John McIntyre talks to Los Angeles–based artist Grey James about his new show at Bert Green Fine Arts in Chicago....
Brad Evans speaks with Lewis R. Gordon, author of “What Fanon Said.” A conversation in Brad Evans’s "Histories of Violence" series....
Brad Evans speaks with Davide Panagia, author of “Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics.” A conversation in Brad Evans’s Histories of Violence series....
Human rights were once seen as full of promise. Now they’re seen by many as a troubling neoliberal project....
Nicholas Utzig reviews "American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan" by Matt Farwell and Michael Ames....
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Philosophy and the "intellectual game": Kieran Setiya interviews Alva Noë about his book, "Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark."...
In a first round World Cup match between Argentina and Nigeria last year, there was a moment that will live ...
This piece appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: The Occult, No. 22 To receive the ...
This short story appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: The Occult, No. 22 To receive ...
This piece is a preview of our next Quarterly Journal: Imitation, No. 23 To receive the next issue of the ...
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One of the strangest and most contentious borders in US history is the watery one with Haiti....
Stephen Rohde reads the Mueller Report and looks at past impeachment proceedings to determine where we go from here....
Rob Wilson considers “Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work” by Timothy Hampton...
Morten Høi Jensen asks Adam Kirsch about his new book, “Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?”...
In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence....
A visit to the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali....
Madhav Khosla reviews an exquisite memoir of transience and loss....
A feminism rock icon muses about her past and her music....
A feminism rock icon muses about her past and her music....
Adrian Van Young reviews “Sugar Run” by Mesha Maren....
Anthropologist, author, and filmmaker Diane Tober explores what it means to be human in the biotech age....
Anna Friedrich tags after a Russian-born cabaret dancer in Paris....
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch reviews Nicholas Brown’s “Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism.”...
The dean of American music critics on his late friend, public intellectual Marshall Berman....
This piece appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: The Occult, No. 22 To receive the ...
Keetje Kuipers's "All Its Charms" is laced with both hopefulness and the prickling sting of thwarted desire....
Roy Scranton reviews two new books by Bill McKibben and David Wallace-Wells, examining why they don't go nearly far enough....
Human rights were once seen as full of promise. Now they’re seen by many as a troubling neoliberal project....
Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen....
“‘How Humans Learn’ is a splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college.” Ryan Boyd reviews Joshua R. Eyler’s new book....
Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx review John Thelin’s “Going to College in the Sixties.”...
Anthropologist, author, and filmmaker Diane Tober explores what it means to be human in the biotech age....
John Rieder reviews "New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color," edited by Nisi Shawl....
While we crave traditional components like complexity, spectacle, and closure, we experience those things only as an endless flow of branded content....
"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus....
Philosophy and the "intellectual game": Kieran Setiya interviews Alva Noë about his book, "Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark."...
Kristen Warner is here to tell you that Game of Thrones is a soap opera, that you are soap opera fans, and that it's okay....
Peli Grietzer considers the rallying murmur of Russian Doll's revolutionary representation of high-functioning mental illness....
On the mysterious disappearance of a once-famous child author....
The children’s book author discusses her influences, the importance of MFA programs, and the challenge of long-distance commuting....