• Bread and Circus: A Round-up of our Best World Cup Pieces

    Photo: Brazil, May 10, 2014 By Leon Dische Becker If you’ve been following our World Cup symposium, Brazil’s lackluster performance will …

    We Out Here

    Photo: SRO fire escape. SoMa, SF, 2010.  Today’s post is a photo essay on San Francisco by Rian Dundon, originally …

    Hitler, Continued

    Laurie Winer, Senior Fiction editor, blogs about a LARB exclusive online today: Ron Rosenbaum’s new Afterword to an updated edition of his …

    Bad China Articles: Hall of Infamy

    This week’s China Blog post was originally published on The Anthill, a “writers colony” focused on writings about China, edited by …

    I See Dead People

    This piece was originally published today, July 8, by LARB Channel Avidly.  By Alizah Salario At The Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, the …

    Marginalia Radio Interviews Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter

    https://soundcloud.com/marginalia/mrb-radio-13-randall-balmer This interview is from LARB Channel Marginalia, and is number 13 in their ongoing radio series.  Art Remillard talks with …

    Why Chinese TV Should Be More Like French TV

    By Paul French If you want to understand a country’s national obsessions and public concerns, watch their TV crime dramas. …

    Who You Calling a Techie?

    Photo: Janet Delaney, Roof Terrace One Hawthorne 645 Howard Street, 2013. This piece was originally published by LARB Channel Boom, in their Summer 2014 …