Wandering Ways
Toward a discursive, essayistic mode of lecturing....
A Wine Lover Considers the “Sober Lush” Lifestyle
Annemarie Hauser embraces "The Sober Lush," the new book by Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire....
Greece, Cut and Dried
Piper French reviews "The Passenger: Greece," the new essay collection from Europa Editions and Iperborea....
In the Back Kitchen
If you could have lunch with a famous person or a departed loved one, whom would you choose?...
Hal’s Ready for His Close-up: An Excerpt from “But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct”
LARB presents an excerpt from Ken Kwapis’s “But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera.”...
The Caregiver’s Dilemma
Ben Kafka talks with W. J. T. Mitchell about his new memoir, "Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia."...
Mental Traveler
LARB presents an excerpt from W. J. T. Mitchell's "Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia."...
For Camus, It Was Always Personal
On the inspirational lyricism of Camus’s essays....
A Journey to Being: On Seth Greenland’s “A Kingdom of Tender Colors”
An acutely observed, well-written memoir about surviving cancer, generously leavened with humor....
Black Childhood as Idyll: On Vivian Gibson’s “The Last Children of Mill Creek”
Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Vivian Gibson’s memoir of growing up in St. Louis....
“He Drank It Black”: On Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee”
Markman Ellis soaks up “Coffee,” a “fluid, involving” object lesson by Dinah Lenney....
Something That Would Be Remembered: On Two Women Noir Trailblazers
Kathleen Jones on two recent biographies of midcentury women of noir: producer Joan Harrison and actress Veronica Lake....
