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Almost in exchange for the trustingness of his subjects, Peter Hujar became a different person when he was behind the...

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Join Verso Books for a virtual discussion of Joel Wainwright’s "The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis". Featuring Mazen Labban, Matt Shafer, and Joel Wainwright. RSVP he...

Rowland Bagnall reviews Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma.”

Videos and installations that look at how architecture and memory shape the present.

‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’

The cover for our Fall Books Issue—a painting of ripe purple plums in a punnet, surrounded by hand-painted cover lines—was an unexpected

Today we are honored to publish two short excerpts from the forthcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s "Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948...

“When I was a child, everything used to come to me first as a poem.”

The late Nigerian sculptor Erhabor Emokpae is perhaps best known for his bronze replica of the sixteenth-century ivory mask of Queen Idia, the kingdom of

In 2014, Hindu nationalists won the general election in India: power was now held by admirers of Savarkar, who had been...

Her great themes were timeless, the stuff of the ancients’ ancients: perception, eternity, travel, the problem of evil. She repudiated Aristotle, denied the primordial split between myth and natural philosophy: Anything could, and would, be likened to everything, in the service of the sentence.

“I know that black life, like all life, outstrips our perceptions, that so much of black life still remains—to invoke Ellison here—invisible, unseen.”

Reflections on chronic lovelessness and finding love in a crushing world.

Sculpting the city with touch.

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...