The Hunger of Joseph
Recorded starvations throughout history.
Essays
Weijia Pan’s ‘Tokyo’
A new poem by Weijia Pan from the LARB Quarterly, no 49: ‘Traffic.’
Hands and Fins and Feet
What a dead goliath grouper, killed by an industrial spill, tells us about cerebrocentrism and our denied kinship with other species.
Fatimah Asghar’s ‘[i can’t fight]’
A new poem by Fatimah Asghar from the LARB Quarterly, no 49: ‘Traffic.’
Kyle Carrero Lopez’s ‘A Few Miles from Prison’
A new poem by Kyle Carrero Lopez from the LARB Quarterly, no 49: ‘Traffic.’
%20crop-1.jpg)
From the Archive
The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts
Samuel G. Freedman traces the long and contradictory intellectual journey of the man behind Project 2025.
Eleni Sikelianos’s ‘Human Mornings’
A new poem by Eleni Sikelianos from the LARB Quarterly, no 49: ‘Traffic.’
Christina Davis’s ‘Vigil Strange’
From the LARB Quarterly no 49: ‘Traffic,’ a new poem by Christina Davis, dedicated to John H. Davis (1938–2006).
I Ain’t Mad at Cha
On Tupac’s letter to Madonna from prison, and their complex romantic relationship mediated by race, sexualization, and fame.
Lone Geniuses in Political Worlds
Comparing Andy Weir’s and Jules Verne’s political visions of science.
A Place of Greater Safety
In granting their prime minister a third term, Armenians have embarked on a bold historic gamble to align their country with Turkey and the West.
Character Study
The burgeoning field of fiction character biographies.
The Last of the Great Butterfly Collectors
‘Papilio nobilis, male.’
Only a Place Like This
Reporting from a car in Baghdad.
