Forging nature.

Fredric Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his...

Patients with undiagnosed conditions suffer not only from their symptoms but also from the uncertainly of not knowing what afflicts them.

The 2026 LRB Autumn Lecture in NYC: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius – The Tishman Auditorium at the New School, Wed 28 Oct 2026 - Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Othe...

For this loving portrait of Barbara Hammer, the pioneer of lesbian experimental cinema, O’Connor “exhibits her own vision as she looks back toward her…

We are left, a third of the way through The Disappearers, with a feeling of absolute outrage, when outrage is no more...

Lineage, both creative and personal, comes up throughout the features in our fall issue. For a composer adapting Lincoln in the Bardo into an opera, a…

A memoir about incarceration, exile, and writing against the limits of captivity.

“All writing, for me, is a relationship. I don’t feel like I can do whatever I want with whomever I want. It’s call-and-response.”

Truong Tran confronts language and identity: Bay Area poet explores dyslexia, queerness and exclusion in his new memoir.

Among the many astonishing moments in Get Back—the 2021 documentary that Peter Jackson made from rehearsal footage of the Beatles in January 1969,

When Mario Vargas Llosa announced in October 2023 that his new novel, Le dedico mi silencio—now published in English as I Give You My Silence—would be his

The Center for the Art of Translation presents the seventh annual Day of Translation in partnership with The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn! Whether you are a

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A retrospective layers information to tell stories and convey memories.

“Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.”

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An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

When I first met David Morales it was December 2019, and I was standing in David’s ill-lit bachelor apartment as he announced to a small holiday party full of socialists that he intended to run for st...