• LARB Blog

    Nothing Gold Can Stay: Reflecting on the Legacy of Kobe Bryant

    By Mansoor Khan

    Mansoor Khan reflects on what the basketball legend meant to him as a child, an adult, and a Pakistani-American.

    Danielle Lessovitz’s Port Authority: Visually Stunning and Authentic

    By Emma Konst

    Emma Konst contextualizes the "full-bodied, realistic trans character" in Danielle Lessovitz’s "Port Authority" among recent films about trans love.

    I Am a Bot. All Bots Are Liars.

    By Peggy Weil

    Peggy Weil talks about the ability of new computers to hoodwink us.

    An Odyssey Through Central Asia: Erika Fatland’s Sovietistan

    By Tamerlane Salyk

    Tamerlane Salyk reviews the tour of the "stans" in "Sovietstan," a travelogue by Erika Fatland, translated by Kari Dickson.

    Korea’s Greatest Living Novelist Never Published in English: Introducing Kim Hoon and His War on Abstraction

    By Colin Marshall

    Colin Marshall talks about Kim Hoon, Korea's prolific and successful historical novelist.

    The Voyage Home: Star Trek: Picard and Millennial Nostalgia

    By T.S. Mendola

    T.S. Mendola takes a look at the new "Star Trek: Picard" series and who it appeals to to.

    “What Is Not But Could Be If”: On the Death of David Berman

    By Elliot Schiff

    Elliot Schiff remembers David Berman.

    Different People, Different Prices: Talking to Joseph E. Stiglitz

    By Andy Fitch

    Andy Fitch talks with Joseph E. Stiglitz about phantom market competition and the depersonalized externalities of the modern economy.

    Silence, Alterity, & Poetic Voice: From Homer to H.D., Spicer, & 21st Century Collaborative Poetry

    By Kristina Marie Darling

    Kristina Marie Darling discusses new approaches to the poetic process.