The Eagle and the Lion
An exhibition charts the ties between East Asia and Latin America, from the colonial era to the new Cold War.
Tim BrinkhofMar 10
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Nicole-Antonia Spagnola
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola’s silent Super 8 film, 1-2-3: Apartment Gallery, loosely departs from the films of Billy Wilder.
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Mad Ones with Trust Funds
Andrew Martin’s new novel is a chronicle of the overeducated and underachieving stumbling through a post-pandemic haze.
Adam StrausMar 10
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Time-Wasting, Truth-Wasting Exercises
Samuel Cohen’s anthology on book banning diagnoses a recent swell in censorship that’s problematic for more reasons than you’d think.
John Downes-AngusMar 9
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Elliptical Selfhood
Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.
Tess PollokMar 9
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Photography Gone to the Dogs
John Divola’s photographs of the Southern California desert in the late 1990s get a second wind thanks to Nazraeli Press’s reissues.
Andrew WittMar 8
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What Lies Beyond and Beneath
Nadia Davids discusses the ‘thin places’ between life and death in her new novel ‘Cape Fever.’
Katya ApekinaMar 7
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LARB RADIO HOUR
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Novelist and critic Namwali Serpell joins the podcast to discuss her latest book, 'On Morrison. '
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THE ROAD AHEAD
Iranians Don’t Need to Prove Their Revolution to You
The uprising in Iran isn’t only against armed oppression; it’s also over narrative.
Sahar DelijaniFeb 1
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COLOR OF THE YEAR?
Mama Don’t Take My Chromophobia Away
Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is selling us a white fantasy.
Lida Zeitlin-WuFeb 4
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Perhaps You’re Not Yourself, But Her
German director Mascha Schilinski’s visually evocative 2025 film suggests the influence of Francesca Woodman’s photographic work.
Marya E. GatesMar 7
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“Superstars” by Ann Scott
One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a carnal portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the ‘90s, the LARB Book Club Spring 2026 pick is Ann Scott's novel, Superstars.
Mar 7
Vigdis Hjorth's 'Repetition'
Vigdis Hjorth joins the podcast to talk about about her latest novel, 'Repetition'
LARB Radio HourMar 6
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Doing Someone Else’s Crossword
The Francis Crick of Matthew Cobb’s new biography was both the consummate insider and a scientific outlier.
Angela N. H. CreagerMar 6
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SILVER SCREEN
The End of Cinema?
Amid cinema’s decline, two new books by A. S. Hamrah resist defeatism.
Georgie CarrFeb 15
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BETA MODE
Making a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence
Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.
Dashiel Carrera, Katy Gero, Christian Bök, Nick Montfort, Amy CatanzanoFeb 14
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THE INDUSTRY
A Cyberpunk Blueprint for Hollywood’s AI Dreams
Revisiting Pat Cadigan’s 1991 novel “Synners” in light of dystopian developments in Los Angeles.
Jeff HewittFeb 12
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE
The End of Psychiatry (Kind Of)
Neurologist Pria Anand lauds Khameer Kidia’s new dissection of Western psychiatric imperialism.
Pria AnandFeb 3
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Moving Through the World with Eyes Open
In her latest short story collection, Ayşegül Savaş considers lives lived apart.
Angelica HankinsMar 5
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Open Rehearsal
Keith S. Wilson’s visually experimental poetry examines the ‘asymmetries of risk’ and repetition to expose ‘how violence enters the body as habit.’
Jeffrey LevineMar 5
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Sadism as Psychotherapy
Jon Stock’s recent book examines the deplorable career of prominent psychiatrist Willam Sargant and his brand of bio-therapeutics.
Andrew ScullMar 4
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Let Down by Understatement
Scott Broker’s debut novel is like ‘Scenes from a (Gay) Marriage’ with undertones of Stephen King.
Gideon LeekMar 3
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World Cup Nausea
With the World Cup looming in North America this summer, Simon Kuper offers a compelling—and depressing—history of this unique tournament.
Dan FriedmanMar 3
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Finding Our God-Terms
Joshua HallMar 2
Sadism as Psychotherapy
Andrew ScullMar 4
A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’
Andy HagemanFeb 23
Don’t Close Your Teeth
Cynthia ZarinNov 17, 2025
Politics as Usual
Mary TurfahJun 25, 2025
It Really Can Happen Here
Juliette BretanFeb 27
World Cup Nausea
Dan FriedmanMar 3
The End of Cinema?
Georgie CarrFeb 15

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You Say You Want a Revolution
Should historians look at violent revolutions with rose-colored glasses while vindicating the terror that carried them forth?
Jack JacobsFeb 19
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Social Mobility and Stagnation
How the university entrance exam and residency permits structure life for in China.
Susan Blumberg-KasonFeb 16
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Incredible Prophecies, Sick Truths
Oedipal iterations, from Sophocles to Arundhati Roy.
Ankhi MukherjeeFeb 6
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Have Democrats Learned Anything?
Was Nevada Democrat Harry Reid truly a master of the Senate, or at least a game changer, as Jon Ralston’s new biography argues?
Jon ChristensenJan 30
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I Was a Punk for the FBI
Brian James Schill speaks with the founders of ‘Punk’ magazine on its 50th anniversary about whether they were surveilled by the feds.
Brian James SchillFeb 18
Opera (and Comics) Against Fascism
Exploring how the graphic novel ‘Death Strikes’ intersects with the modernist opera ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis,’ a work composed by Jewish prisoners during the Holocaust.
Melissa ChanFeb 16
Cut Gems
Asha Schechter documents the experience of retouching precious gems, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: ‘Security.’
Asha SchechterFeb 14
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Hold Me Too Close
Writer-director Bradley Cooper’s ‘evangelizing’ new film ‘Is This Thing On?’ explores human connection in marriage and stand-up comedy.
Frank FalisiFeb 2
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Hail, Caesar
Friends, Romans, countrymen: Nathan Jefferson lends his ears (and eyes) to the immersive “Julius Caesar” production at Heritage Square Museum.
Nathan JeffersonMay 8, 2025
The Whole Idea of Knowing the Truth
Elizabeth Barton trawls through the newly opened Joan Didion archives at New York Public Library to learn about the making of the author’s first book.
Elizabeth BartonApr 30, 2025
Jackpot!
“Nothing is clearly defined” in Julia Yerger’s art exhibition, which Keith J. Varadi finds to be a big win.
Keith J. VaradiMar 17, 2025
My Date at the Holocaust Ballet
Dorie Chevlen attends “Memoryhouse,” an abstract, cinematic performance that still managed to dance around comparisons to contemporary injustices.
Dorie ChevlenFeb 12, 2025

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LARB Radio Hour

Namwali Serpell's 'On Morrison'
Novelist and critic Namwali Serpell joins the podcast to discuss her latest book, 'On Morrison. '
LARB Radio HourFeb 20
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Richard Hell's 'Godlike'
Richard Hell joins the podcast to speak about the reissue of his novel 'Godlike'
LARB Radio HourFeb 13
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Kristin Ross's 'The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life'
Kristin Ross talks about her book, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life, and political transformation and cultural representation in an archive episode.
LARB Radio HourFeb 6
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Hamza Walker’s 'Monuments' and Senga Nengudi’s 'Populated Air'
Co-curator of MOCA's Monuments exhibit Hamza Walker and Senga Nengudi join the podcast to talk about their respective art projects, history, and more.
LARB Radio HourJan 30
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LARB Quarterly, no. 48: 15th Anniversary Issue

The LARB Quarterly no. 48, our 15th Anniversary Issue, is an anthology curated from over 16,000 pieces published over LARB’s lifetime. The collection is not meant to be exhaustive, or the “best of the best,” but rather representative of a certain LARBiness—that combination of critical attention and Los Angeles ease.

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