LARB Best of 2025

Julia Loktev's "My Undesirable Friends"

Robin Coste Lewis's "Archive of Desire"

Brandon Taylor's "Minor Black Figures"

Sarah Schulman's "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity"

Angela Flournoy's "The Wilderness"

The S**t Show

Kelly Reichardt's "Mastermind"

Grace Byron's "Herculine"

Chris Kraus's "The Four Spent the Day Together"

J. Hoberman's "Everything is Now: Primal Happenings, Radical Music, Underground Movies, and the 1960s New York Avant-Garde"

Alejandro Varela's "Middle Spoon"

Sally Mann's "Art Work: On the Creative Life"

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone: Are Literary Men in Crisis?

Fara Dabhoiwala's "What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea"

Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise"

Nicholas Boggs's "James Baldwin: A Love Story"

Nathan Kernan's "Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler"

Talking 'Heightened Scrutiny' with Sam Feder and Amy Scholder

Michael Clune's "Pan"