Who Tells the Stories of Chinese Leaders? On Two New Biographies
Lucy Hornby discusses two recent biographies about former Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng.
Lucy Hornby discusses two recent biographies about former Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Hua Guofeng.
Brandon Sward wades through spectral sports audio in search of that yummy-yum at Paul Pfeiffer’s retrospective at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary.
James Ciano reviews Catherine Barnett’s “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space.”
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Peter Holslin reflects on synthesizer drones, inoffensive ambience, and his father’s affinity for...
Adam Fleming Petty reviews Lucas Mann’s “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performance,” rooting his analysis in his personal experience.
Margo Steines reviews Lucas Mann's “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances.”
Sarah Yanni talks with Michelle Tea about her new anthology “SLUTS.”
Diana Heald reviews Suzanne Scanlon’s “Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen.”
Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor.”
Jessica Rizzo reviews David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.”
Scholar and writer Anna Shechtman joins Medaya Ocher to discuss her book “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword...
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” writer Rachel Cusk and filmmaker Ira Sachs discuss his new film “Passages,” his oeuvre, and the...
Ruth Joffre reviews Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark.”
Alice Courtright reviews Marie Howe’s “New and Selected Poems.”
Enzo Escober reviews Julio Torres’s body of work, but most of all, his debut feature, “Problemista.”
Brittany Menjivar forgoes turkey legs and opts instead for a taste of pulled pork and momento mori at the Renaissance Faire.