Literature at Work: A Conversation with Derek Attridge
Francesco Giusti discusses literary criticism and theory with Derek Attridge, author of “The Work of Literature.”...
Either Reason or a Rope: On Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule’s “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”
Kieran Setiya contemplates “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters,” an engaging new book by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule....
In the Snatches of Free Time: On Collecting Roland Barthes
Ayten Tartici pores over an “intentionally idiosyncratic collection of Barthesiana entitled ‘Album,’” edited by Éric Marty and translated by Jody Gladding....
Feminism’s Styles
A book on midcentury anti-feminism and the politics of sentimentality....
Histories of Violence: Nonviolence and the Ghost of Fascism
Brad Evans speaks with political philosopher and social activist Todd May. A conversation in Brad Evans’s Histories of Violence series....
The Ashtray Has Landed: The Case of Morris v. Kuhn
Much of "The Ashtray" is witty, ebullient, and generous. Errol Morris shares his wide range of interests, and his enthusiasm for philosophy is infectious....
The Disappearance of the Subject: On Armen Avanessian’s “Miamification”
On “Miamification” by Armen Avanessian, which tries to imagine a "progressive politics equidistant from technological utopianism and technophobia.”...
Hardly Navel-Gazing
Does existentialism still deserve our attention? On "The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age."...
Thinking with Martin Luther King Jr.
Shivani Radakrishnan reviews by “To Shape a New World,” a collection of essays edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry....
Did Foucault Reinvent His History of Sexuality Through the Prism of Neoliberalism?
Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean draw parallels between Michel Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the rise of neoliberalism....
The City and the Pen: An Excerpt from Shlomo Sand’s “The End of the French Intellectual”
LARB presents an excerpt from Shlomo Sand’s “The End of the French Intellectual,” translated by David Fernbach and out this month from Verso....
Beast Mode
Colin Dickey on Peter Sahlins’s “1668: The Year of the Animal in France”...
