LARB
Los Angeles Review of Books
REVIEWS
REVIEWS

Revenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind”A City for Children in the Work of E. L. KonigsburgLiberal Bias or Neoliberal Bias?: Neil Gross's "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"Rewiring Literary CriticismPandas, Professors, and Promises, or, The MOOC Will Not Set Us FreeA Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña's "The Sad Passions"The Weight of History: Colum McCann’s "TransAtlantic"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S. HarperVisionary Russian Futures On Demand: Anindita Banerjee's "We Modern People"Peak Adventure: On Mountaineering and the EnlightenmentThe Question Floating Between Us: The Lovely Indeterminacies of Yoko Ogawa see all reviews »
ESSAYS
ESSAYS

Bloomsday 2013: John JoyceMr. Chan and the MachineMOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's TestimonyLove, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby WorksHow To Read AgambenThe Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan ZaqtanPost-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season FourTen Things I Learned From Loving "Anne of Green Gables"Searching for Proust in Los Angeles see all essays »
INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEWS

Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy MilesDigging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCannPODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha TretheweyThe Second Act of Alex Espinoza[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do AidContextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona MaazelPODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante see all interviews »
Contributors Authors Genres Events About LARB

Interviews

Interview TitleDateAuthor Name
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAll
Michael Bibler interviews James Franco

“James Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"”

May 15th, 2013
Daniel Olivas interviews Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Just This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz”

May 6th, 2013
LARB interviews Jamaica Kincaid

“Jamaica Kincaid at UCR Writers Week 2013 [VIDEO]”

February 15th, 2013
Mary Warner interviews James Meek

“The Journey, Like Time, Never Ends: An Interview with James Meek”

December 22nd, 2012
Gregg Barrios interviews James Franco

“James Franco on His Earliest Reading and Latest Writing”

December 9th, 2012

Featured Essay

“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"

Video

MATTHEW SPECKTOR on the Los Angeles, past and present, of his latest novel "AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE"

Audio

Podcast #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"

LARB on Twitter

Follow @LAReviewofBooks

   

Books

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Hector Tobar


The Lawyer Bubble
by Steven J. Harper


Like A Virgin
by Aarathi Prasad


Authors

Jayne Cortez

... More


Jon Wiener

... More


Charles Yu

... More


Genres

Television

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

0 total reviews

Biography & Autobiography

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

78 total reviews

Literary Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

108 total reviews

DonationsBecome a Member Today
American Dream Machine
by Matthew Specktor


The Book of Woe
by Gary Greenberg


Sister Mine
by Nalo Hopkinson


Go to Books Archive
Percival Everett

"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More


Angilee Shah

... More


Jack Halberstam

... More


Go to Authors Archive
Comics

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

23 total reviews

Music

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
... More

41 total reviews

Nonfiction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

218 total reviews

Go to Genres Archive
© 2013 Los Angeles Review of Books | All Rights Reserved | Donate | Contact Us