The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Julien CrockettJan 2
Bob Blaisdell examines the public life of autofiction icon Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Bob BlaisdellDec 30, 2023
Kim Gordon relays the mythos surrounding her late brother in an excerpt from her upcoming book for LARB Quarterly, no. 40: “Water.”
Kim GordonDec 29, 2023
Olivia Giovetti surveys memoirs about the opera diva Maria Callas, on the centenary of her birth.
Olivia GiovettiDec 21, 2023
Edmée Lepercq reviews French author Clara Schulmann’s newly translated book-length essay “Chicanes."
Edmée LepercqDec 15, 2023
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews Robert Glück’s “About Ed.”
Rose Higham-StaintonDec 13, 2023
Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide” and Perhat...
Benno WeinerNov 28, 2023
Tom Zoellner talks to Lydia Otero about her new account of a young adulthood in Los Angeles, “L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir”
Tom ZoellnerNov 13, 2023
Hannah Bonner looks at Elisabeth Subrin’s documentary, “Maria Schneider, 1983,” alongside Vanessa Schneider’s memoir, “My Cousin Maria Schneider.”
Hannah BonnerNov 9, 2023
Thom Sliwowski reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s “Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia.”
Thom SliwowskiNov 6, 2023
Ayden LeRoux reviews Sophia Giovannitti’s “Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex.”
Ayden LeRouxNov 3, 2023
Mariella Rudi reviews Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles.”
Mariella RudiNov 2, 2023
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Dan O’Brien finds symbols of life and faith in the theater.
Dan O’BrienOct 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
A. C. Huyen reviews Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
A. C. HuyenOct 27, 2023
Arundhati Roy accepts the Charles Veillon Foundation’s 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement.
Arundhati RoyOct 21, 2023
Tamara MC reviews Guinevere Turner’s “When the World Didn’t End.”
Tamara MCOct 9, 2023
Erik Gleibermann interviews Safiya Sinclair about her memoir “How to Say Babylon.”
Erik GleibermannOct 4, 2023
Ada Wordsworth reviews John Freedman’s anthology of works by Ukrainian playwrights, “A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War.”
Ada WordsworthOct 3, 2023
Tahneer Oksman reviews Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.”
Tahneer OksmanOct 2, 2023
Does nostalgia for the old East Berlin come from a deeper longing for socialism?
Matthew LongoOct 1, 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
Farah Ahamed on how men reacted to her book about menstruation—by explaining menstruation.
Farah AhamedSep 24, 2023
Mikkel Krause Frantzen explores emotions at the end.
Mikkel Krause FrantzenSep 23, 2023