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Translating Poetry: An Essay from Marginalia
May 2014
California Soul: Boom Interviews Richard Rodriguez
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Isla Vista: Two Essays From Avidly
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A Tale of Two First Books: A Conversation with NPR’s Louisa Lim and The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos
In 2008, I wrote in the Guardian that there had recently been a “notable acceleration” in the frequency with which “illuminating …
Xi Jinping’s Peculiar Packaging of the May 4th Spirit
By Rebecka Eriksson Early this month, Chinese top leader Xi Jinping made a high profile visit to China’s most prestigious …
A Trip Back to Beijing — Courtesy of Xu Zechen and Eric Abrahamsen
By Megan Shank Step out of the Beijing airport, and taste the tang in the air. For the remainder of …
Out Of Body: Freedom, Chaos, and Puppetry in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Emily Hunt My first experience with A Midsummer Night’s Dream was watching Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film production. I’m sure …
Letter from the Chairman of the Board
Help Us Make History Several years ago, Tom Lutz, the founding editor of LARB, and I sat down to lunch …
Reading Middlemarch in Jiangxi
By Mengfei Chen Is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune …
Letter from Central Idaho: 20 Years of Iconoclastic Bookselling
This store is no longer an active participant in LARB’s Reckless Reader program. Click here for our current partner stores …