Sweeney and the Bicycles, by Philip Salom
After his foray into coastal Victoria in The Fifth Season, (2020, click here ...
Books
Wandering with Intent, by Kim Mahood
Kim Mahood is one of our most interesting thinkers about the interface betwee...
Kim Scott named a State Cultural Treasure
Congratulations to Australian writer Kim Scott who has received a prestigious...
At Proust Weekend: The Madeleine Event
Over the course of Villa Albertine’s Proust Weekend, a series of talks, work...
River Cottage Great Salads, by Gelf Alderson
Gelf Alderson’s River Cottage Great Salads, has a lot of beaut recipes for sa...
The Leap
Starling. Photograph by Raman Kumar, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC...
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 ...
A Brief Affair, by Alex Miller
A new book from Alex Miller is always an event on a booklover’s calendar. Aw...
Misreading Ulysses
This text was delivered as the T.S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre in Dub...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 6 — A Q&A Wit...
This interview, like the previous one in this series with Eileen Cheng-yin Ch...
Sunset for a Blog and a Double Birthday
For several years, I’ve had the pleasure of co-editing this China Blog at BLA...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 7 — A Q&A Wit...
This interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, academic editor of the new LARB Chin...
Summer 1993: Walter Gieseking, Debussy’s Préludes I ...
Claude Monet, “Rouen Cathedral,West Façade, Sunlight,” 1894. Licensed under C...
Announcing Our Winter Issue
Friends sometimes ask me why I still bother going to the theater. It’s a fai...
Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
Finer minds than mine have waxed eloquent about this book, but FWIW, I enjoye...
Gulliver’s Wife, by Lauren Chater
If anything in this review raises issues for you, help is available at Beyond...
Education
Don’t Forget to Breathe
By James Prescott-Kerr When you’re abroad and know you have limited time in ...
