An LARB Radio Hour double feature. First, Eric Newman speaks to D. Smith about her new documentary “Kokomo City.” Then, in the second half of the show, Kate Wolf is joined by filmmaker Claire Simon to discuss her new documentary, “Our Body.”
Chloe Xiang reviews “Mass for Shut-Ins” by Mary-Alice Daniel.
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Eileen G’Sell interviews German art film director Christian Petzold about his latest, “Afire.”
Jay Murphy reviews three recent books of (and about) the late writings of Antonin Artaud.
Robin Myers writes about her experience of migrating to Mexico City and coming to translate Spanish poetry.
Sammy Loren interviews Jack Skelley, author of “The Complete Fear of Acker.”
Giovan Alonzi reviews “Oh God, the Sun Goes,” David Connor’s surreal and dreamlike debut.
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska reviews Leon Forrest’s “Divine Days.”
In a preview of “LARB Quarterly” no. 38: “Earth,” Camila Fabbri considers what forever means, as translated by Robin Myers.
Grace Lavery reviews Julie Bindel’s “Feminism for Women: The Real Tribute to Liberation,” Helen Joyce’s “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” and Kathleen Stock’s “Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism.”
Hollis Robbins reviews Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” and David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.”
Jon Jon Moore Palacios reviews “ballast” by Quenton Baker.
Olivia Stowell reviews Michael Szalay’s “Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas & the Reinvention of Television.”
Joy Castro reviews Ana Menéndez's “The Apartment.”
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Heidi Julavits, whose new book is called “Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years.”
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