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“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange's "Angel Baby"A Transformed Legal Profession Faces the Future: Barry A. Sanders on “The Lawyer Bubble”The World’s Bloodiest Civil WarTesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"Publishers on a MissionEmpire and the Mau Mau: A Story of Colonialism and Counter-InsurgencyFDR: Good for the Jews?Scientology: The Mystery SandwichFinding Words For What Is Horrible: Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives"Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"Untied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green see all reviews »
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Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-haIf the SAT Were a Key to All MythologyHollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn'tConversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of LifeHurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and GreeceMarx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing ConsumerUntucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the HammerLetter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist StateDick Nixon, To Kick Around EvermoreSingle Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned In CaliforniaRagged But Right: Wayne White on George JonesIn Memory of Carmine Infantino (1925–2013) see all essays »
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[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa HadleyJust This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"PODCAST #27: Colin DickeyFifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives"The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David ShieldsThe Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie see all interviews »
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LARB Minifilms interviews Carolyn Kellogg

“Carolyn Kellogg”

April 18th, 2012
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“Catherine Malabou on the Brain and Other Topics”

May 5th, 2012
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“China’s Latest Laureate: Chinese Lit Scholar Answers Questions about Mo Yan”

October 12th, 2012
Colin Marshall interviews Tom Lutz

“Colin Marshall Talks to Tom Lutz”

December 12th, 2012
Arlo Haskell interviews Robert D. Richardson

“Concord is Where You Are Right Now”

August 16th, 2012
Kate Wolf interviews Dennis Cooper

“The Charismatic Voice”

June 28th, 2012

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