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The World Most of Us Don’t See: A Conversation with Katherine Seligman
Laurie Ann Doyle talks with Katherine Seligman about her newest novel, "At the Edge of the Haight."
Laurie Ann DoyleApr 17, 2021
- Fiction
The Baba Yaga Takes the A Train
Veronica Schanoes weaves together past and present, myth and current events as she leads us to meditate on celebrity, life, death, and loss.
Mark SoderstromApr 17, 2021
- SF
A Good Used Book in Los Angeles, CA
Madeline Wendricks introduces the newest member of LARB's Reckless Reader program, A Good Used Book in Los Angeles, CA.
Madeline WendricksApr 17, 2021
Nick Pinkerton Says Goodbye to Dragon Inn
Kate Wolf and writer and film critic Nick Pinkerton revel in memories of the power and meaning they found in a communal space of shared dreams.
LARB Radio HourApr 16, 2021
Brushing Off the Dust: On “I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust”
Melissa Greenwood relates to and reviews “I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust” by Emily Grodin and Valerie Gilpeer.
Melissa GreenwoodApr 16, 2021
- Memoir & Essay
Searching for Healing in a Darkening Land
Brandon Hobson’s “The Removed” is a horrific, funny, sensual, thoughtful, and ultimately truthful account of the ongoing scourge of racism.
Chelsea T. HicksApr 16, 2021
- Fiction
The Meaning of Lokman Slim
A brave and controversial activist was assassinated in South Lebanon. What does his death mean for a country already on the brink?
Evan PheifferApr 16, 2021
- Around the World
From Freedom Fighting to Fiction: A Conversation with Richard O’Rawe
Matt Ellis interviews former IRA operative Richard O’Rawe about “Northern Heist,” a crime novel inspired by a 2004 Belfast bank robbery.
Matt EllisApr 15, 2021
- Noir
Negative Space: Close Reading Trauma Porn
Maya Gurantz dissects the structure and comes to terms with the compulsive appeal of streaming abuse documentary series.
Maya GurantzApr 15, 2021
- Television
He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”
A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it.
Tom ZoellnerApr 15, 2021
- Gender & Sexuality
Death and Hope: On Federico Falco’s “A Perfect Cemetery”
The first translated collection of stories from a celebrated Argentinian author.
Madison Felman-PanagotacosApr 14, 2021
- Fiction
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of G. C. Waldrep’s “The Earliest Witnesses”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “The Earliest Witnesses” by G. C. Waldrep.
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangApr 14, 2021
- Poetry
- Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue
Into Each Other’s Eyes: On Jasmila Žbanić’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?”
Sejla RizvicApr 14, 2021
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist.
Yxta Maya MurrayApr 13, 2021
- Art & Architecture
“An Apparition, Am I Not?”: On Cynthia Ozick’s “Antiquities”
Nathan Dunne follows Cynthia Ozick into the labyrinth of her latest novel, “Antiquities.”
Nathan DunneApr 13, 2021
- Fiction
Abolishing the Suburbs: On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear”
David Helps considers Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”
David HelpsApr 13, 2021
- Politics