Books
At Proust Weekend: The Madeleine Event
Over the course of Villa Albertine’s Proust Weekend, a series of talks, workshops,...
River Cottage Great Salads, by Gelf Alderson
Gelf Alderson’s River Cottage Great Salads, has a lot of beaut recipes for salads,...
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Goals?
The U.S.-Wales Men’s World Cup Match and Opening Ceremony in Doha, Qatar, on November...
A Brief Affair, by Alex Miller
A new book from Alex Miller is always an event on a booklover’s calendar. Awarded...
Misreading Ulysses
This text was delivered as the T.S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 6 — A Q&A With Advising...
This interview, like the previous one in this series with Eileen Cheng-yin Chow,...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 7 — A Q&A With Academic...
This interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, academic editor of the new LARB China Channel...
Sunset for a Blog and a Double Birthday
For several years, I’ve had the pleasure of co-editing this China Blog at BLARB,...
Announcing Our Winter Issue
Friends sometimes ask me why I still bother going to the theater. It’s a fair question....
Summer 1993: Walter Gieseking, Debussy’s Préludes I & II,...
Claude Monet, “Rouen Cathedral,West Façade, Sunlight,” 1894. Licensed under CC0...
Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
Finer minds than mine have waxed eloquent about this book, but FWIW, I enjoyed it...
Gulliver’s Wife, by Lauren Chater
If anything in this review raises issues for you, help is available at Beyond Blue,or...
Forbidden Notebooks: A Woman’s Right to Write
Alba de Céspedes pictured in the Italian magazine Epoca, vol. VII, no. 86, May 31,...
Does It Have to Be That Way?: A Conversation with Elif...
Elif Batuman in 2019. Photo: Valentyn Kuzan. In September 1852, when he was twenty-three,...
Cooking with Intizar Husain
Photo by Erica Maclean. The novel Basti by Intizar Husain begins with children in...
