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On the Power of Sisterhood and the Limits of Nostalgia: An Interview with Brazilian Director Karim Aïnouz

Around the World, Film, Gender & Sexuality

On the Power of Sisterhood and the Limits of Nostalgia: An Interview with Brazilian Director Karim Aïnouz

Eileen G’Sell

Eileen G’Sell interviews Karim Aïnouz, director of “Invisible Life.”

Room After Room in “The Report”

Film, Politics

Room After Room in “The Report”

Hilary Plum

Hilary Plum considers "The Report," Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s "Guantánamo Diary," and who gets to depict torture.

Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”

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Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor explores the historical and cinematic resonances of Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, “Motherless Brooklyn.”

Ambidextrous Authorship: Greta Gerwig and the Politics of Women’s Genres

Fiction, Film, Gender & Sexuality

Ambidextrous Authorship: Greta Gerwig and the Politics of Women’s Genres

Patricia White

Patricia White considers Greta Gerwig's adaptation of "Little Women."

Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2020

Film, Music, Cultural Studies

Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2020

Greil Marcus

LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.

America Is Hard to See

Film, Politics

America Is Hard to See

Ryan Meehan

As much as it is a portrait of Steve Bannon, "American Dharma" is also a story about the political and media class’s hypnotism by apocalyptic visions.

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Adam J. Fitzgerald

Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

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VIDEO: Cecil Castellucci

Cecil Castellucci talks to LARB about reading and writing Young Adult fiction, and about the very good advice she got from


VIDEO: Clara Mokri on 'Marley & Me'

Clara Mokri, one of our student correspondents, on the book and the film.                   


“Lights, Camera-maids, Action!”: Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema

Film, Gender & Sexuality

“Lights, Camera-maids, Action!”: Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema

Marsha Gordon

Gordon and Grimm consider how the camerawoman fought for relevance and visibility in the days of early cinema and ask why we continue to forget her.

“Doctor Sleep”: How Kubrick Outshines the King

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“Doctor Sleep”: How Kubrick Outshines the King

Vaneesa Cook

Does Mike Flanagan's adaptation of "Doctor Sleep" balance the visions of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King?

Film After Auschwitz: On Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird”

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Film After Auschwitz: On Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird”

Marta Figlerowicz

Marta Figlerowicz considers "The Painted Bird," Václav Marhoul's adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's infamous novel.

Incremental Losses: A Conversation with Masha Tupitsyn

Nonfiction, Film, Cultural Studies

Incremental Losses: A Conversation with Masha Tupitsyn

Sara Black McCulloch

Sara Black McCulloch speaks with writer, critic, and multimedia artist Masha Tupitsyn about her latest book, “Picture Cycle.”

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