With Werner Sollors, Greil Marcus is the editor of A New Literary History of America (2009). This spring the Folio Society is publishing a new and illustrated edition of his 1975 book Mystery Train, and on April 28 Yale is publishing his Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby. He was born in San Francisco and lives in Oakland.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2021
LARB presents the February 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2021
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2020
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: November 2020: Special Election Edition!
LARB presents the special election installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: October 2020
LARB presents the October installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: September 2020
LARB presents the September installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2020
LARB presents the August installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: July 2020
LARB presents the July installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2020 — Part II
LARB presents the second, all–Bob Dylan edition of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2020 — Part I
LARB presents the first part of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: May 2020
LARB presents the May installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: April 2020
LARB presents the April installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2020
LARB presents the March installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2020
LARB presents the February installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2020
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2019
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: November 2019
LARB presents the November installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: October 2019
LARB presents the October installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: September 2019
LARB presents “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2019
LARB is happy to announce that it will serve as the new home for “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
At the Edge of the Screen: Greil Marcus Interviews David Thomson
FOR THE SEASONED LARB READER — or indeed, for almost any contemporary reader — neither Greil Marcus nor David Thomson should need an ...
Notes on Woody Guthrie’s “Mermaid Avenue”
WHEN BILLY BRAGG and Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue appeared in 1997, it signified that, despite his world reputation, the world ...
Heart of Stone: Keith Richards' "Life"
One of the most dynamic and least recognized songwriters of his time....
