By Michelle Brafman I devoured T.C. Boyle’s novels and stories after the PEN/Faulkner Foundation asked me to moderate an event …
Reading in the Dark: My Winter with T. C. Boyle
June 2015
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 …