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Richard Hell's "Godlike"

Kristin Ross's "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life"

Hamza Walker’s Monuments and Senga Nengudi’s Populated Air

Lauren Rothery's "Television"

Caroline Fraser's "Murderland"

Susan Orlean's "Joyride: A Memoir"

Sally Mann’s “Art Work: On the Creative Life”

Special Show: Jenny Slate and Sarah Manguso

Tales from Two Critics: A.S. Hamrah and Melissa Anderson on the Year in Film

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"

LARB Book Club: Sebastian Castillo

Catherine Lacy's "The Möbius Book"

LARB x The Stacks Podcast: Books on the Internet

Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s “Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation”

Susan Choi's "Flashlight"

PRIDE SHOW: Featuring Milo Todd and Vince Aletti

Alison Bechdel's "Spent"

What To Do About Shame?

Dan Nadel's "Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life"

Vauhini Vara's "Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age"

Jon Hickey's "Big Chief"

Sarah LaBrie's "No One Gets to Fall Apart"

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

Maggie Nelson's ""Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth"

Katie Kitamura's "Audition"

Andrea Long Chu's "Authority"

Lynne Tillman's "Thrilled to Death"

Pankaj Mishra's "The World After Gaza: A History"

Bruce Robbins's "Atrocity: A Literary History"

Torrey Peters' "Stag Dance"

Haley Mlotek's "No Fault: A Memoir of Divorce and Romance"

LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2025 Oscars Preview

Hal Foster's "Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics"

Deborah Treisman's "A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker"

Colette Shade's "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything"

Aria Aber’s “Good Girl”

Trump L’Oeil: Spectacle in the Age of Trump

The LA Fires

Writing Climate Futures

On Giving Up

Ariana Reines' ''Wave of Blood''

BEST OF 2024 EPISODE

Kathryn Davis' "Versailles"

Raoul Peck's "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found"

Renee Gladman's Experiments in Form

Edwin Frank's "Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel"

Politics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Presidency

Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise"

Forrest Gander's "Mojave Ghost"

The Fight to Unionize Amazon

Simon Critchley's "Mysticism"

Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde"

Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies"

Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement"

Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown"

Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain"

Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out"

Danzy Senna's ''Colored Television"

Sofia Samatar's "Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life"

Charlotte Shane's "An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work"

Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car"

Writing Climate Futures

Pessimism and Politics

Sarah Manguso's "Liars"

Two Decades of N+1

Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin"

Nell Irvin Painter at the Crossroads of Art, Politics, and Race in America

Emily Nussbaum's "Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV"

A Queer Vision of Old Hollywood

Claire Messud's "This Strange Eventful History"

Does Criticism Still Matter?

Rachel Khong on What Makes a Real American

Erik Davis on the Art of LSD

Legacy Russell's "Black Meme"

Miranda July's "All Fours"

Danielle Dutton's "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other"

On Giving Up

Anna Shechtman's "The Riddles of the Sphinx"

The Veteranos of East LA

Mother Tongues and Mother Dolls

Victoria Chang on Finding Agnes Martin During Crisis

Morgan Neville's "STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces"

The Morality of Memoir, or, Daddy I Want Coffee!

Tommy Orange's "Wandering Stars"

The Problem with Adoption

Brad Gooch's "Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring"

Tana French's "The Hunter"

LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2024 Oscars Preview

Leslie Jamison's "Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story"

Phillip B. Williams' "Ours'

Lucy Sante's "I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition"

Adam Shatz's "The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon"

Nathan Thrall's "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy"

E.J. Koh's "The Liberators"

Kohei Saito's "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"

Lexi Freiman's "The Book of Ayn"

Alicia Kennedy's "No Meat Required"

Ed Park's "Same Bed Different Dreams"

The Best of 2023

Blake Butler's "Molly"

Robert Glück's "About Ed"

Andrew Chan's "Why Mariah Carey Matters"

Sasha Frere-Jones' "Earlier"

Nicole Newnham's "The Disappearance of Shere Hite"

Dan Sinykin's "Big Fiction"

Justin Torres's "Blackouts"

Dorothea Lasky's "The Shining" and Anna Biller's "Bluebeard's Castle"

Lydia Kiesling's "Mobility"

Lydia Davis's "Our Strangers"

Mary Gabriel's "Madonna: A Rebel Life"

Hilary Leichter's "Terrace Story" and Lisa Teasley's "Fluid"

Ross Gay's "The Book of (More) Delights"

Thea Lenarduzzi's Dandelions

Colin Dickey's "Under the Eye of Power"

Maya Binyam's "Hangman"

Prudence Peiffer's "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever"

Andrew Leland's "The Country of the Blind"

Koritha Mitchell and Michelle Lanier on Harriet Jacobs's “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”

D. Smith's "Kokomo City" and Claire Simon's "Our Body"

Heidi Julavits’s “Directions to Myself"

Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin's "Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval"

John Yau's "Please Wait By the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art"

Juana María Rodríguez's "Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex"

Rachel Nuwer's "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World"

Kristin Ross' "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life"

Martine Syms' "Loser Back Home"

Craig Seligman's "Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag"

Joanna Biggs' "A Life of One’s Own"

Gary Indiana's "Do Everything In The Dark"

Publishing in Peril? Lisa Lucas and Christian Lorentzen

Hunter Hargraves' "Uncomfortable Television" and Phillip Maciak's "Avidly Reads: Screentime"

Claire Dederer's "Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma"

Helen Cammock's "I Will Keep My Soul"

Tom Comitta's "The Nature Book" & Suzaan Boettger's "Inside the Spiral"

Colm Tóibín's "A Guest at the Feast"

Jenny Liou's "Muscle Memory"

McKenzie Wark's "Raving"

Cristina Rivera Garza's "Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice"

Malcolm Harris' "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World"

2023 Oscars Preview

Emmanuel Iduma's "I Am Still With You"

Laura Poitras "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

Ann Goldstein on Alba de Cespedes' "Forbidden Notebook"

Maggie Millner's "Couplets"

De'Shawn Charles Winslow's "Decent People"

Kathryn Ma's "The Chinese Groove"

Curtis White's "Transcendent"

Anand Giridharadas "The Persuaders"

Sabrina Imbler's "How Far the Light Reaches"

Best of 2022: Adam Phillips's "On Wanting to Change" and "On Getting Better"

Jordan Stein's "Rip Tales"

The Best of 2022

Joyce Chopra, Lady Director; and Chris Smith's "Sr."

Jamieson Webster's "Disorganisation and Sex"

Hilton Als' "My Pinup"

Dionne Irving's "The Islands"

Peter Brooks' "Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative"

Jon Wiener on the Life and Work of Mike Davis, plus Constance Debré's "Love me Tender"

Darryl Pinckney's "Come Back in September"

Namwali Serpell's "The Furrows"

Kathryn Scanlan's "Kick the Latch"

Hua Hsu's "Stay True"

Andrew Sean Greer's "Less is Lost"

Yiyun Li's "The Book of Goose"

Rachel Aviv's "Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us"

For the Love of Print: Chloe Watlington, Michelle Chihara, Jeff Weiss and Schessa Garbutt

The Art of Translation: Andrew Way Leong, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Robin Myers, and Magdalena Edwards

Elizabeth Kolbert's "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future"

K-Ming Chang's "Gods of Want"

Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall"

Elvia Wilk's "Death By Landscape"

Raquel Gutiérrez's "Brown Neon"

Joseph Osmundson's "Virology"

Claire Denis's "Both Sides of the Blade"

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's "Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation"

Natalia Molina's "A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished A Community"

Ottessa Moshfegh's "Lapvona"

Nell Zink's "Avalon"

Renee Gladman's "Plans for Sentences"

Elif Batuman's "Either/Or"

Shelly Oria's "I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom"

Hernan Diaz's "Trust"

Celia Paul's "Letters to Gwen John"

Douglas Stuart's "Young Mungo"

Margo Jefferson's "Constructing a Nervous System"

Andrey Kurkov's "Grey Bees"

Patti Smith's "The Melting"

NoViolet Bulawayo's "Glory"

John Markoff's "Whole Earth" and Ulysses Jenkins's "Without Your Interpretation"

Danielle Lindemann's "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us"

Adam Phillips's "On Wanting to Change" and "On Getting Better"

Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide"

Claire-Louise Bennett's "Checkout 19"

Isaac Butler's "The Method"

Lewis R. Gordon’s “Fear of Black Consciousness”

Sheila Heti's "Pure Colour"

Francesco Pacifico "The Women I Love"

Neel Patel's "Tell Me How To Be":

Tochi Onyebuchi's "Goliath"

Gary Shteyngart's "Our Country Friends"

Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism and Fiction

The Best of 2021 Show

Anna Della Subin’s “Accidental Gods”

Sam Quinones’s “The Least of Us”

Online Together: A Roundtable Discussion with Christoph Bieber, Safiya Noble, and Anna Wiener

James Hannaham's "Pilot Impostor"

Melissa Anderson's "Inland Empire" and Pippa Garner's "Immaculate Misconceptions"

José Vadi’s “Inter State: Essays from California”

Ruth Ozeki's "The Book of Form and Emptiness"

Tom McCarthy's "The Making of Incarnation"

Natalie Diaz: Postcolonial Love Poem

Todd Haynes: The Velvet Underground

Dodie Bellamy's "Bee Reaved;" and Mia Hansen-Love's on Bergman Island

Kelefa Sanneh's "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres"

Cynthia Cruz’s “The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class”

Betsy West and Julie Cohen: My Name is Pauli Murray

Amia Srinivasan: The Right to Sex

Maggie Nelson: "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint"

Kaveh Akbar's "Pilgrim Bell"

Rachel Greenwald Smith On Compromise

Matthew Specktor’s “Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California”

Nawaaz Ahmed's Radiant Fugitives

Hogir Hirori, Director of Sabaya

Katie Kitamura's "Intimacies"

Rivka Galchen: Everybody Knows Your Mother is a Witch

Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground

Zakiya Dalila Harris: The Other Black Girl

Davarian L. Baldwin: In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Kristen Arnett: With Teeth

Kate Zambreno: To Write As If Already Dead; & Susan Bernofsky: Clairvoyant of the Small

Joan Silber: Secrets of Happiness

Carol Anderson's The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Matthew Heineman: The Boy from Medellin

Sarah Schulman: Let the Record Show ACT UP NYC, 1987-93

Jacqueline Rose: On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Larissa Pham's Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Helen Oyeyemi: Peaces

George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Nick Pinkerton Says Goodbye to Dragon Inn

Rachel Kushner Amongst The Hard Crowd

Jackie Wang: The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void

Jo Ann Beard's Festival Days

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Disordered Cosmos

Contrasting Interiors: Christine Smallwood's Life of the Mind and Sara Davis' Scapegoat

Brian Dillon Supposes a Sentence

Claudio Lomnitz's Nuestra America: A Jewish Latin American Odyssey

Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts

Valentine Special: Gay Bars and Boyfriends with Jeremy Atherton Lin and Brontez Purnell

From The Break to Bridgerton with Taylor Renee Aldridge and Patricia A Matthew

Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Kink Lit: A Conversation with R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell

The Delightful Rage of Fran Lebowitz Revisited

National Book Award Winner Charles Yu Interior Chinatown: Satire, Metafiction, & Anti-Racism

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans

Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva

Best of the Worst Year Ever Show

Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Alex Ross in Wagner's Shadows

The Magic World of Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Alexander Nanau's Collective Nightmare for Our Time

The Election and a Changing America: LARB Politics Editor Tom Zoellner on The National Road

Bryan Washington's Memorial; and Election Reflections

Women Against the Odds: Talking to Filmmaker Garrett Bradley & Art Legends, the Guerrilla Girls

Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine

Suzanne Nossle on Local News

Talking to Alain Mabanckou, author of Black Moses

Homeland Elegies: Ayad Akhtar on mourning America

The Only Reader is a Re-Reader: Talking to Vivian Gornick

Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism & Fiction

Friendship and Mortality in a Plague Year: Sigrid Nunez on What Are You Going Through

A Different Addiction Story: Yaa Gyasi talks about Transcendent Kingdom

Kelli Jo Ford, author of Crooked Hallelujah, on Love and the End Times

Yan Lianke, author of Three Brothers, on Chinese Life, Law, and Literature

An Alpaca and a Llama Walk into a Bar: Talking to Joni Murphy, author of Talking Animals

Life In Between: Awkaeke Emezi on their new novel The Death of Vivek Oji

Talking Tomboys with Melissa Faliveno

Aminatou and Ann's Big Friendship

Talking “Breasts and Eggs” with Japan’s Rising Literary Star, Mieko Kawakami

When Reform Isn't Enough: Afropessimism's Argument for a New Society

French Connections: Hirokazu Kore-eda on The Truth; Joyce Zonana on Henri Bosco’s Malicroix

From Pride Month to Independence Day: the story of Frank Kameny, an LBGBTQ+ Trailblazer

Changing the Conversation: Laverne Cox and Sam Feder on Trans Representation

On the Line with Percival Everett

Death in Her Hands: Talking to Ottessa Moshfegh

In Conversation with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder #BlackLivesMatter

Juli Delgado Lopera Comes Alive

Art in an Emergency: Talking to Olivia Laing and Lucy Ives

Wayne Koestenbaum's Whirlwind of Wit & Wisdom

Cathy Park Hong Reckons with Minor Feelings

A Time Capsule of Queer LA: Tom of Finland & Circus of Books

Wow, it's Samantha Irby

Crime & Punishment & RuPaul’s Drag Race: Talking to Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen

It Was A Good Day: Talking the Rise of Gangsta Rap with Felicia Angeja Viator

Literary LA: Our Meteoric Quarantine with Harry Dodge

Coronavirus Quarantine Encore: A Podcast About Nothing with Jenny Odell

The Roots of California's Modernist Utopia: Tuberculosis and Teutonic Nudism

The Mystery of the Empty Nest: Journalist Joshua Hammer on Wildlife Crime

Best of Difficult Women

The Wild Tales of Walter Mosley

Literary LA: Janet Fitch on Kate Braverman; and Tom Lutz's Slippy Debut

Isabella Rossellini & the Links Between Us

Garth Greenwell's Cleanness

Literary LA: Satire, Metafiction, Anti-Racist Critique in Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown

Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Tom Lutz

Portrait of a Feminist Filmmaker

Hilton Als on His Playwrighting Debut: Robert Wilson, Race, and the Avant Garde

J Hoberman: Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump and the American Political Imaginary

The Best of 2019: Books, TV, Movies, and More

Literary LA: Witches, Wisdom, and an Oracle for Our Troubled Times

Darryl Pinckney: Reflections on the Present through the Prism of Our History

Archive Fever: Marion Stokes' 24-Hour News Cycle

Generosity: Frederic Tuten's Life of Art, Literature, and Solidarity

Literary LA: Yogita Goyal on the Slave Narrative, Past and Present

Literary LA: Eve Babitz Back in Print

Monique Truong's 19th Century Triptych Portraiture

Natasha Stagg's Fashionworld Phantasmagoria

Tori Reid Talks to the Iconic Nikki Giovanni

Leslie Jamison on Everything

Director Bong Joon Ho Talks Parasite

Literary LA: Stephen Van Dyck Meets People from the Internet

The Formation of the #MeToo Canon

Sarah M Broom's Autobiography of a House

A Podcast About Nothing with Jenny Odell

Recasting American Mythology: Tea Obreht's Western for the 21st Century

Literary LA: Susan Straight In the Country of Women

Race and Reparative Writing; plus, the Cutthroat World of Translation

21st Century Globalized Capitalism in Microcosm: American Factory

Among the Believers: Ammon Bundy and America's Armed Libertarian Right-Wing

The Roots of California's Modernist Utopia: Tuberculosis and Teutonic Nudism

James Ellroy and Tom Lutz: The Storm in 1942 Los Angeles

Brazil's Tragedy and the Global Crisis of Democracy

Ariana Reines' Quest for 21st Century Epic Verse

Radio Hour: Part Two with Bookworm’s Michael Silverblatt

Generosity: Frederic Tuten's Life of Art, Literature, and Solidarity

Tragedy and Inspiration: Cherrie Moraga on Her Mother, the Chicanx Diaspora, and the Age of Trump

Historical Frictions: Jordy Rosenberg, Jack Sheppard and Imagining Transgender Lives in the Archive

Breaking Down the Binary with Jacob Tobia

John Waters: Holding Court with the King of Filth

Commitment and Trust, Past and Present, with Erica Jong and Susan Choi

The LA Times Book Prize Winners: Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips

Hanif Abdurraqib's Love Letters to A Tribe Called Quest & Claire Vaye Watkins' Desert Futurism

Homecoming: Laila Lalami on The Other Americans & a Mother's Day Tribute with Jo Giese

Werner Herzog on Meeting Mikhail Gorbachev

Sally Rooney: Great Expectations

Talent Show: Juliet Lapidos and Tom Lutz

Opening Up with William E Jones

A Tale of Two Karens

Brooklyn's Loss is LA's Gain: Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico

Bannon Agonistes: Alison Klayman's The Brink

At the Movies with Geoff Dyer

Deborah Eisenberg's Duck is Our Duck

Imagining My Brother's Return - Borjas

Strange Journeys: Chloe Aridjis' Sea Monsters

A Difficult Woman: The Fierceness and Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Identity Theft

Three Cynics and a Funeral

Circling the Abyss: Talking to Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark

Mitchell S Jackson's Survival Math

Jeffrey Yang and the Mystique of Marfa

And the Winner for the Best Documentary is...

John McPhee's Magisterial Patchwork

Telling Stories and Telling Histories: Wayetu Moore's She Would Be King

The Best of 2018: Books, TV, Movies, and More

John Wray's Improbable Leap of Faith

LA Stories: Howard Hughes, Starlets, and Outcast Punks in Dystopia

The Body as Archive

William Cooper, Conspiracy Theories, and The Decline of the American Mind

Chris Kraus' Social Practice

Rethinking Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Centering the Margins: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors

Sandi Tan Talks Inspiration, Betrayal, and Singapore's First Indie Film

Matt Tyrnauer's Histories of American Glamour & Sexuality

Your Brain on Capitalism: Martijn Konings Deconstructs the Neo-Liberal Order

Owls in the Fog: Ben Marcus and Brian Phillips

Seth Greenland's New Nineteenth Century Novel

The Delightful Rage of Fran Lebowitz

Minding the Gap with Bing Liu

Michael Arceneaux's Faith: Beyonce, Writing, and Romance

Porochista Khakpour: Reflections on Being Sick

Reconciling the Mother and the Artist with Jori Finkel

Martin Duberman on The Gay Movement Past & Present

The Poverty of Wealth with Lauren Greenfield

Inside Bachelor Nation with Amy Kaufman

Our Homes, Ourselves: Reading Interiors with Lydia Millet

The Ties That Bind? Three Identical Strangers

The Science of Fiction: David Naimon on Ursula K Le Guin

Mister Rogers and the Art of Radical Empathy

Joseph O'Neill is up to "Good Trouble"

Rebecca Makkai and the Burdens of History

"Would You Have Waited for Me?" Tayari Jones' An American Marriage

Johanna Drucker: The Ecological Longview

Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang

Morgan Jerkins’ Vulnerable Bravery

Wim Wenders on Pope Francis: The Man and His Words

Talking About Race with Ijeoma Oluo

Ryan Holiday on Nick Denton, Peter Thiel, and the Conspiracy against Gawker

In the Frame: Los Angeles & Sharp Women Writers

A Deep Dive into Pop Culture with Hanif Abdurraqib

Ayelet Waldman's Psychedelic Salvation

Junot Diaz Writes for a New Generation

The Science of Feelings and the Origins of Culture

Sean Penn's Latest Role: Novelist

Maxine Hong Kingston: Warrior of Peace

Dispatches From The Border

Bassem Youssef's Revolutionary Comedy

The Literature of Exile

Huck Finn on the LA River

Love and Jealousy

The Faith and Fortitude of Min Jin Lee

An Evening with Alan Alda and K.C. Cole

Lovers and Liars

Queer Memoir Part Two: Feeling Mean with Myriam Gurba

Queer Memoir Part One: Feeling Creepy with Jonathan Alexander

Russia, Romance, Revolution! Janet Fitch’s The Revolution of Marina M

Masha Gessen on Russia's Evolution from Soviet Socialism to Putinism

Ragnaroket Science: Clifford Johnson's Comic Book Explains the Universe

Errol Morris Explores the Death of Truth in America, Past and Present

Controversial Jews

Freeman’s Bright Future for New Writing Across the Globe; plus Kurniawan’s Beauty is a Wound

Liska Jacobs’ Catalina: A Crash & Burn Tale for Our Times; plus Chris Kraus’ Video Green

Robin Campillo's BPM Captures the Vitality & Tragedy of ACT UP Paris in the 90s; plus Canine Lit

Lynn Comella on the Feminst Sexual Revolution that Shook the Nation; + Katherine Heiny

An Israeli & Palestinian Dinner at the Center of the Earth with Nathan Englander; & Rachel Cusk

Literary & Artistic Connections: Manchester to Oaxaca to LA; plus, Pankaj Mishra's Histories

Ai Weiwei on Human Flow: Refugees, Art, History, Spirit & Nature

Karen Tei Yamashita's Letters to Memory; plus Sylvia by Leonard Michaels

Orange County: A Literary Field Guide; plus Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's Age of the Walkman

Chiara Barzini's Los Angeles Before the Earthquake; plus, Play Dead by Francine Harris

Natalie J Graham Begin with a Failed Body; plus Russian Emigre Short Stories after October 1917

Dolores Huerta & Peter Bratt La Lucha Continua at 87; plus, David Plante's Difficult Women

Trump’s “Empire of Disorientation”: Philosopher Hans Sluga on Donald Trump

Lucy Ives Impossible Views of the World; plus Roxane Gay's Hunger

Bryan Fogel’s Icarus Has the Dope on Putin; plus Tom Atwood’s LGBTQ Home Pics

Imani Tolliver Runaway: A Memoir in Verse; plus Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter

Danzy Senna's New People: Race, Identity, Romance, & Jonestown; plus Toni Cade Bambara

Frank Gehry in Dialogue with Joseph Giovannini

In Depth with Poet Douglas Kearney; plus The Healers by Awi Kwei Armah

Lorin Stein of The Paris Review in Dialogue with Tom Lutz; plus Jim Shepard's The World to Come

Harmony Holiday Hollywood Forever; plus Garth Greenwell on Yiyun Li

Peter J Harris' Johnson Chronicles; plus Dick Gregory's Autobiography

Errol Morris on His B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography; plus, Alison Lurie's Nowhere City

Jonathan Lethem is More Alive and Less Lonely; plus The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead

Deborah Nelson on Tough Women; plus praise for Motherest

Amelia Gray on her new novel Isadora; plus The Last Wolf by Lazlo Krasznahorkai

Jess Arndt on Large Animals: Stories; plus Brian Blanchfield's Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Mary Gaitskill in Dialogue with Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer

Joyce Carol Oates, Morgan Parker, and Fiona Maazel at the LA Times Bookfest

Garth Greenwell, Marcy Dermansky, and Dana Spiotta at the LA Times Bookfest

Janet Sarbanes' The Protester Has Been Released; plus recent Chinese LGBT literature

Laura Poitras on Risk, her new film about Julian Assange. Plus, Russell Banks' America

EP08 - Losing Critical Voices?

Abdellah Taia's Another Morocco; & Gershom Scholem's Mystical Messiah Sabbatai Sevi

Kellie Jones South of Pico: Black Artists in LA in the 60s & 70s; plus Irene Nemirovsky recommended

George Prochnik on Gershom Scholem, Benjamin, and Jerusalem; Elif Batuman The People in Trees

Elif Batuman The Idiot; Donika Kelly Bestiary; Honoring Robert Silvers

The Real Word - EP07v2

Melissa Febos Abandon Me; plus The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Naima Keith & The California African American Museum

Real Word Episode 06 - Everything I Never Told You

Akhil Reed Amar on Trump and the Constitution

Valeria Luiselli's Tale of Children Refugees Tell Me How It Ends; Sarah Manguso on 8

Real Word Episode 5 - The Tattooed Soldier

Sarah Manguso 300 Arguments; plus One Hundred Demons Recommended

Film Now Panel: Justin Chang, J D Connor, Gil Robertson, Cathy Schulman, Anna Shechtman

Real Word Episode 4

Vanessa Davis Spaniel Rage; Sarah Schulman People in Trouble; plus Emily Dickinson Readings

Literature vs Trump: Iranian Poet Moshen Emadi & San Pedro's Martabel Wasserman

The Real Word Episode 3

Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This; Monica Coleman's Bipolar Faith

Best Foreign Films of 2016; Awards Season; Tom Lutz on TC Boyle & DH Lawrence

The Real Word - Episode Two - Me Before You

LARB in SF with Ha Jin and Dr. Loco (Jose Cuellar); plus Lena Dunham and Thomas Lux

The Real Word - Episode One

LARB in SF w Rabih Alameddine & Jade Chang; Dian Hanson Hails Ren Hang & CP Cavafy Waits for Trump

Taschen's Dian Hanson on Bob Mizer; plus The Seventh Fire Documents Gangland on the Reservation

Celebrate the Holidays Soviet Style from Moscow to Los Angeles

La Resistance Holiday Gift Show with the ACLU, EFF, and Earth Justice

Susan Kaiser Greenland Mindful Games; Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, & 9/11; Gerard Manley Hopkins

Emily Witt Future Sex; Leo Braudy on Fame in Trump's America; plus Edna St Vincent Millay

Leo Braudy Haunted in Trump's America; plus Michael Morpurgo, and Dorothy Parker's Love Song

Paul Crewes of Wallis Annenberg on LA Theater; plus Anne Sexton & Dinah Lenney