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LARB Radio Hour — 99 episodes

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1

Suzy Hansen's "From Life Itself"

2

Lucrecia Martel "Nuestra Tierra"

3

A Return to the Queer 90's

4

Patrick Radden Keefe's "London Falling"

5

Karan Mahajan's "The Complex"

6

Reynaldo Rivera's "Propiedad Privada"

7

Hyperpolitics

8

The War in Iran and the Limits of American Journalism

9

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10

Vigdis Hjorth's "Repetition"

11

Lauren Groff's "Brawler"

12

Namwali Serpell's "On Morrison"

13

Richard Hell's "Godlike"

14

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

15

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

16

Lauren Rothery's "Television"

17

Caroline Fraser's "Murderland"

18

Susan Orlean's "Joyride: A Memoir"

19

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

20

Special Show: Jenny Slate and Sarah Manguso

21

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

22

Best of 2025

23

Julia Loktev "My Undesirable Friends"

24

Robin Coste Lewis's "Archive of Desire"

25

Brandon Taylor's "Minor Black Figures"

26

Angela Flournoy's "The Wilderness"

27

The Shit Show

28

Kelly Reichardt's "The Mastermind"

29

Grace Byron's "Herculine"

30

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

31

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

32

Alejandro Varela's "Middle Spoon"

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

Talking 'Heightened Scrutiny' with Sam Feder and Amy Scholder

39

Michael Clune's "Pan"

40

LARB Book Club: Sebastian Castillo

41

Catherine Lacey's "The Möbius Book"

42

LARB x The Stacks Podcast: Books on the Internet

43

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

44

Susan Choi's "Flashlight"

45

PRIDE SHOW: Featuring Milo Todd and Vince Aletti

46

Alison Bechdel's "Spent"

47

What To Do About Shame?

48

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

49

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

50

Jon Hickey's "Big Chief"

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

Katie Kitamura's "Audition"

55

Andrea Long Chu's "Authority"

56

Lynne Tillman's "Thrilled to Death"

57

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

58

Bruce Robbins's "Atrocity: A Literary History"

59

Torrey Peters' "Stag Dance"

60

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

61

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62

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

63

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

64

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

65

Aria Aber's "Good Girl"

66

Trump L'Oeil: Spectacle in the Age of Trump

67

The L.A. Fires

68

Writing Climate Futures: David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake

69

On Giving Up

70

Ariana Reines' ''Wave of Blood''

71

BEST OF 2024 EPISODE

72

Kathryn Davis' "Versailles"

73

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

74

Renee Gladman's Experiments in Form

75

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

76

Politics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Presidency

77

Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise"

78

Forrest Gander's "Mojave Ghost"

79

The Fight to Unionize Amazon

80

Simon Critchley's "Mysticism"

81

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

82

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

83

Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement"

84

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

85

Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain"

86

Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out"

87

Danzy Senna's ''Colored Television"

88

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

89

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

90

Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car"

91

Writing Climate Futures

92

Pessimism and Politics

93

Sarah Manguso's "Liars"

94

Two Decades of N+1

95

Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin"

96

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

97

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

98

A Queer Vision of Old Hollywood

99

Claire Messud's "This Strange Eventful History"