Break the Great Chain of Being: On “Becoming Human” and “Being Property Once Myself”
Brigitte Fielder reviews recent books by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Joshua Bennett....
The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100
Wittgenstein’s early opus exerted a huge influence on literary modernism....
The Aesthetics of the Void: On Brad Evans’s “Ecce Humanitas”
Reconceiving the sacred, and the violence it authorizes, for a secular age....
We Can Do Better: On Richard Rorty’s “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism”
Michael S. Roth examines Richard Rorty’s “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.”...
Control Everything: On Hartmut Rosa’s “The Uncontrollability of the World”
Paul J. D’Ambrosio finds meaning in “The Uncontrollability of the World,” the new book from Hartmut Rosa....
Mapping the Social in Theory and Practice
Michael Eby appreciates “Investigative Aesthetics,” the new book by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman....
Whom?: On Frédéric Gros’s “Disobey!”
A guide to disobedience that leads us into the woods....
When the Towers Fell
LARB presents a symposium reflecting on 9/11, curated and introduced by Brad Evans....
The Gay Panopticon: On Remigiusz Ryziński’s “Foucault in Warsaw”
Foucault’s legendary stay in Cold War Warsaw becomes an origin story for the gay community in postwar Poland....
The Beauty of Imperfection
Irina Dumitrescu appreciates "Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend" by Bonnie Kemske....
The Vices of Virtuality
Reviewing three books in Columbia University Press’s provocative new “No Limits” series....
Descartes’s Evil Genius
Andrea Gadberry considers both the poetic influences on Descartes and the Cartesian influences on poetry....
