• Reading in the Dark: My Winter with T. C. Boyle

    By Michelle Brafman I devoured T.C. Boyle’s novels and stories after the PEN/Faulkner Foundation asked me to moderate an event …

    Beneath the “Patriarchy-Animality-Metaphysics” Complex

    This piece was originally published by LARB Channel Philosoplant.  Essay and photograph by Michael Marder Philosophy flourished in Ancient Greece on the basis of …

    “FEW SOCIAL PRACTICES now seem more antiquated than the formal duel by swords or pistols. The so-called ‘judicial duel’ became …

    The LARB Questionnaire Interviews Avidly

    This week, LARB’s channel Avidly celebrates its third birthday.  In honor of the occasion, Avidly editors Sarah Blackwood and Sarah …

    Are You a Dark Horse?

    By Austin Dean On the first Saturday of June over nine million Chinese teenagers (and their parents) had something in …

    The Killing Time

    Our friend Ann Louise Bardach interviewed Christopher Lee for Los Angeles’s WET magazine in 1981. We post it with her …

    John Brown’s Body Crosses the Pacific

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom On the last two days in April, I got a pair of emails. Each asked me to …

    The Goats: A Middle Eastern Pastoral

    By Joanna Chen It’s that time of year. The goats are here again. They’re back with their shepherds, munching their …

    Congratulations to New US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

    Congratulations to our friend, colleague, contributor and now, US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. Read his most recent poems for the …

    Sexpat Memoirs of China: 5 of the Best

    By Paul French Recently “sexpat” made it into the online urban dictionary — Sexpat (noun), a compound of sex and …