From Circle to Square
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement.
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement.
Rhoda Feng reviews Téa Obreht’s new novel “The Morningside.”
Zoe Mendelson tells herself gossip in order to live in an online-only exclusive from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42.
Vivian Medithi interviews Lauren Cook about his new collection, “Sex Goblin.”
Audrey Serrano just came here from USC, and now she’s in this dream place, watching “Mulholland Drive” in 4K at the Academy Museum.
Listen to a panel discussion featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake, hosted by LARB and The Berggruen Institute on July 18.
Amit Chaudhuri and James Wood discuss modernism, realism, and Chaudhuri’s three recently reissued novels.
Ari Braverman interviews Claire Donato about “Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts.”
Charles J. Holden reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
Paul Vangelisti reviews Neeli Cherkovski’s “Selected Poems: 1959–2022.”
A new Palestinian movie night teaches Tosten Burks about failure.
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
In his review of “Poor Charlie's Almanack,” Dave Mandl delights in Charles T. Munger’s skewering of contemporary investing and business practices.
Gideon Leek reviews the reissue of Caroline Blackwood’s 1976 novel “The Stepdaughter.”
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
Upon the release of Childish Gambino’s final studio album, Cherith King revisits an exploration of his contribution to the “new black Gothic.”