LARB Pub Lab | Essays

01 Aug Fleeing Backwards: The Problematic Present in Medieval Studies

Posted at 12:18h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Kersti Francis: When and how do we talk about the attitudes of an entire field? These conversations often occur in office hours, not in...

31 Jul Who Do You Serve When You Serve Yourself? Consumer Labor, Automation, and a Century of Self-Service

Posted at 18:44h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Mackenzie Weeks Mahoney: We rarely need to ask what “self-service” means. When you fill up your gas tank on the way to work, or...

In sepia pen ink on paper: A gate or an image resembling a doorway exists and beyond it, an exotic, abstracted landscape. The figures live around this frame but are turned away as if the natural world on the other side is of no consequence.

31 Jul The Limits of Urbanism

Posted at 17:34h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Jacob Soule: Some books are published at the wrong time. Richard Sennett’s and Pablo Sendra’s Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruption in the City is...

Black and white print of an elderly woman holding flowers in her hand with a hummingbird

31 Jul Lineage and Language

Posted at 11:40h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Ruddy Lopez: Throughout my adulthood, curanderas have said that my grandmother watches over me. I knew this was true when my mother came back...

31 Jul Beyond the Photographs: New Perspectives on Travel

Posted at 05:43h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Shweta Deshpande: Cambodia is the land of Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site more widely known than the country itself...

“GARDEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS: MOMENT OF RUPTURE” – Transition from a monument to capitalism to underground garden within the same space.

30 Jul Apocalypse Songs: On the Music of Algiers

Posted at 16:47h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Alexander Billet: Algiers are, unmistakably, a band well-acquainted with late capitalism’s structure of feeling...

29 Jul Notes from a Saint

Posted at 13:43h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Kelly Alblinger: Life lessons have the tendency to sneak up on us. Often, we’re going about our business, doing what we do, and a...

29 Jul Learning by the Postcolonial Book: A Tribute to the Godfather of Chicano Literature

Posted at 13:25h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Illianna Gonzalez-Soto: The most profound lesson I have learned reading literature is that words are powerful: relating your narrative can change the world...

26 Jul Long Surnames and Pride: On Alma and How She Got Her Name

Posted at 20:08h in Essays, Essays 2.0, Issue 2 Summer 2019

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26 Jul Time Has Run Out

Posted at 09:00h in Essays, Essays 2.0, Issue 2 Summer 2019

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