Tadhg Larabee is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York.

As an assistant editor at Jacobin magazine, Tadhg edits online articles and contributes non-bylined content to every print issue, covering topics from Russia’s Wagner Group to the global plastic surgery industry and the deep history of computing. Previously, he was an editorial assistant at Boston Review and an intern at Dissent.

He recently graduated from Harvard University, where he studied history and philosophy and served as fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate and editor-in-chief of the Harvard Review of Philosophy. His thesis on landscape, capitalism, and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland received the Franklin and Eleanor Ford Prize and the Hoopes Prize, one of Harvard’s highest honors for undergraduate research.

Tadhg also writes book reviews, essays, and narrative nonfiction, for which he was named a finalist in health care reporting at the 2021 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards. You can read some of his work below.

Dissent

Feature on the First Red Scare and Stop Cop City.

Essay on The Gospel of Church by Janine Giordano Drake.

Essay on The Commune by Marios Chakkas.

Interview with a Stop Cop City activist facing legal persecution.

Review of The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada.

Interview with a Minnesota Nurses Association organizer.

Review of The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt.

Jacobin

Boston Review

Essay on Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai.

Harvard Review

Review of The Problem of the Many by Timothy Donnelly.

DigBoston

Feature on open-source COVID vaccine development.

If you’d like to commission book criticism, fact-checking, freelance editing, or other writing from Tadhg, you can reach him at tadhg.g.larabee [at] gmail [dot] com.