• Grief, Investigation, and Mulholland Dr.

    Today’s post was originally published on LARB Channel Avidly. By Lisa Beskin A month or so after my mother’s death in 2001, …

    John Muir, A Century On

    Today’s post is from LARB Channel Boom. Photo: Tree in Field, 2006, from A New Pastoral: Views of the San Joaquin …

    Learning to Read at Seventeen

    Today’s post was originally published earlier this week by LARB Channel Avidly. By James McWilliams The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips once observed …

    The Paradox of Wu-Wei

    Today’s post was originally published by LARB Channel Marginalia.  By Andrew B. Irvine Almost all the arts of life are enhanced …

    On the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and Ferguson

    Today’s post was originally published last week by LARB Channel Avidly.  By M.J. Dinius Last night on Facebook, my friend explicitly …

    California and The Invisible Bridge

    Today’s post, a review of Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge, was originally published by LARB Channel Boom. By Thad Kousser When the …

    Where I’m Calling From: Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014

    Today on the blog we revisit a piece from LARB Channel Avidly on the passing of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, in …

    Bastille Day in Beverly Hills: The Revolution, Televised

    Photo: Ernest and Celestine, New Video Group, 2014 Today’s post was originally published by LARB Channel Marginalia.  By Ted Scheinman We were …

    Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

    Photo: Howard Street and First Street by Leo vanMunching. Today’s post was originally published on LARB Channel Boom, and is available on …

    7 Most Truthy NYT Columnists

    Today’s post was originally published on Avidly, one of our LARB Channels.  By Jedediah Purdy AVIDLY’S NORTH CAROLINA CORRESPONDENT, JEDEDIAH PURDY, …