Epidemics in History: Of Vaccines and Saints
John H. Arnold argues there’s much to be learned from listening to 14th-century voices to understand or response to COVID-19....
Ayn Rand, Live from Los Angeles
From a movie set extra to a famous Red Scare crusader in Los Angeles....
No Hedging: On Elizabeth Catte’s “Pure America”
Elizabeth Catte dusts off forgotten history in her newest book, “Pure America,” reviewed by Anna Aguiar Kosicki....
Those Were the Days
A new book chronicles the pathbreaking film, music, and television of 1974....
A Look at Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: On Megan Rosenbloom’s “Dark Archives”
Megan Rosenbloom combines perspectives from history, science, and the rare book world to tell her strange and compelling story....
Preserving the Archive
An absorbing history of concerted attacks on knowledge, from book burning to bureaucratic neglect....
Where Gilded Ages Go to Die: Hollywood Returns to the 1930s and ’40s
A new essay by J. T. Price from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No. 29....
Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present
Priya Satia on how the fascism analogy may help reveal what fascism always owed to Americanness and to empire....
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”...
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
Henry M. Cowles evaluates "The Knowledge Machine," the new book by Michael Strevens....
All Souls Rising
An anthology of African American literature arrives right on time....
