American Intimacy: On Gustavus Stadler’s “Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life”
Robert Ryan journeys through Gustavus Stadler’s biography on musician and activist Woody Guthrie.
Robert Ryan journeys through Gustavus Stadler’s biography on musician and activist Woody Guthrie.
Robert Cashin RyanDec 23, 2020
Lucía Benavides on John Lennon, the man and the artist.
Lucía BenavidesDec 18, 2020
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusDec 17, 2020
The great singer-songwriter has spent a lifetime turning bluesy snark into pop gold.
Tim RileyNov 28, 2020
A pioneer folklorist found some British origins of Appalachian music, but missed so much else.
Gregory P. DownsNov 5, 2020
LARB presents the October installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusOct 30, 2020
Growing up with the man in black.
Drew BratcherOct 23, 2020
The death of Stanley Crouch leaves America’s intellectual culture less interesting, less imaginative, and, above all else, less artful.
David MasciotraOct 18, 2020
The L.A. rocker on her experiences in the underground rock scene in pre-glasnost Russia.
Sasha RazorOct 17, 2020
The socially driven dream-telling of Anthony Davis’s political operas.
Thomas LarsonOct 17, 2020
LARB presents the September installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusSep 25, 2020
Kathelin Gray reviews Maria Golia’s biography of composer and musician Ornette Coleman.
Kathelin GraySep 24, 2020
Harlow Robinson turns his ear to “Taking a Chance on Love” by George Harwood Phillips and “In Stravinsky’s Orbit” by Klára Móricz.
Harlow RobinsonSep 15, 2020
Alex Ross’s new book on Wagner teases out the great conductors many contradictions.
Tim RileySep 15, 2020
LARB presents the August installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusAug 28, 2020
Sophy Roberts goes on an untraditional quest.
Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosseAug 18, 2020
John Tottenham plows through the genre of the rock ’n’ roll memoir.
John TottenhamAug 13, 2020
The improvised life (and afterlife) of the British art rock group Henry Cow.
Stathis GourgourisAug 9, 2020
LARB presents the July installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusJul 31, 2020
LARB presents the second, all–Bob Dylan edition of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusJun 19, 2020
LARB presents the first part of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusJun 8, 2020
Felicia Angeja Viator on the complicated nature of "authenticity" in hip-hop
Felicia Angeja ViatorJun 5, 2020
Media Studies scholar Kristen Warner and dance scholar Clare Croft consider the queer, quarantied embodiments of Ryan Heffington's Instagram dance...
Kristen Warner, Clare CroftJun 1, 2020
Does vulnerability in pop pay off?
Charlie Harding, Nate SloanMay 29, 2020