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A collection of essays on the topic of the law and legal affairs, selected in order to give readers samples of the ways in which the subject of law relates to the study of ourselves and our times.

This month's Digital Edition serves up eight irresistible courses from LARB's Food and Drink section.

As any historian or casual observer of urban transformation might tell you, walls are not everlasting.

We're all prone to excess, even in discussions of excess, observes biologist and science writer Marlene Zuk.

In a partnership spanning four decades, Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have been the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art.

In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost "educators who write." With Marian Wrigh

When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was approached by the police on the front porch of his home in an affluent section of Cambridge, many people across the country reacted with surprise and di

The collected nonfiction of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed: "A great pleasure to read no matter what the subject" (Library Journal).

Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy "that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself" (San Francisco Chronicle).

These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer-"Wyoming has found its Whitman" (Annie Dillard).

The "dazzling" and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times).

An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West.

A collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world.

Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another.