• The Unlikely Success of Harold Fry’s Pilgrimage

    By Paul French A boring Englishman leaves home one morning to post a letter while his wife runs the vacuum …

    “Of the making of many books there is no end”: Remembering Michael Kammen, the Professor of Paradox

    By Douglas Greenberg The following is a feature article from the new LARB Quarterly Journal: Fall 2014 edition. To pick …

    Lit Crawl Event Tonight 10/22, With Flaunt Magazine

    Come join LARB and Flaunt Magazine tonight at Lit Crawl. Event info is in the poster above. There will be …

    Remembering the 1930s and 1940s, or Reliving Them?

    By Austin Dean The writer Xiao Hong is everywhere in China these days. Her face recently graced the covers of …

    Tom’s Book Club: Sunday Newsletter

    David Grand’s latest novel, Mount Terminus, was 10 years in the making. This is and isn’t unusual. James Joyce’s Portrait …

    Istanbul and Shanghai Between the Wars – Two Sides of the Same Coin

    By Paul French We generally think of Shanghai between the world wars as unique, a one-off city forming a crossroads …

    Man Booker Prize Winner Announced

    Congratulations to Richard Flanagan, announced today as the 2014 winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road …

    Malala Yousafzai Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

    Today it was announced that Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, and Kailash Satyarthi of India have been awarded the 2014 Nobel …

    Remembering Derrida: A Forum

    Ten years ago, on October 9, 2004, the philosopher Jacques Derrida passed away. To mark this occasion and inquire into …

    Connecting and Comparing the Taipei and Hong Kong Struggles

    By Lorand Laskai October 3: While the world is watching Occupy Central, one group has gone beyond mere spectating. Six …