An Hourglass Figure: On Photographer Francesca Woodman
April 4th, 2013
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Halloween Fiction Roundtable
October 31st, 2012
Hard Stuff
2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction.
September 17th, 2011
Hart Crane in Cleveland
On the legendary American modernist poet.
September 29th, 2012
Hate the Beatles!
Their first single was released 50 years ago this month. Mark Edmundson was not a fan.
October 8th, 2012
Haunted in Bucharest: fathoming my mother’s homeland by talking to its writers
The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's.
September 9th, 2012
Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition
February 14th, 2013
Hell, Hurt, Blood, and Rapture
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington.
January 23rd, 2012
Henry James Is Bigger Than That
On 'Portrait of a Novel,' a biography of Henry James.
December 1st, 2012
Here Comes the Tidal Wave: On "Enlightened"
A love letter to the riskiest show on cable
February 28th, 2013
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Origins of the Book of Mormon
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
October 30th, 2012
Hip-Hop-Academia: Omar Offendum and Arab Diaspora Rap
September 16th, 2012
Hot Dystopic: Orwell and Huxley at the Shanghai's World Fair
The idea that Orwell rather than Huxley was the one to turn to if one wanted a fictional lens through which to see China went virtually unchallenged..
May 20th, 2011
Hotel Theory: The History of the Los Angeles Hotel
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
October 18th, 2012
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