Archive

Biography of a Corrupted Court
Lisa Graves’s new exposé of Chief Justice John Roberts deconstructs the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court.
Paul FinkelmanJan 31
- Politics
- Law
Me, No You
Diamond Forde’s poetry communes with her grandmother Alice’s interior universe, reflecting ‘a dance between two bodies, alive together despite a generation between them.’
Nic CavellJan 31
- Poetry
Hamza Walker’s 'Monuments' and Senga Nengudi’s 'Populated Air'
Co-curator of MOCA's Monuments exhibit Hamza Walker and Senga Nengudi join the podcast to talk about their respective art projects, history, and more.
LARB Radio HourJan 30
- LARB Radio Hour
Have Democrats Learned Anything?
Was Nevada Democrat Harry Reid truly a master of the Senate, or at least a game changer, as Jon Ralston’s new biography argues?
Jon ChristensenJan 30
- Politics
- Biography & Autobiography
Letter to the Editor: Jake Milgram Wien Responds to Johanna Drucker
The author of ‘Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood and the World Beyond’ underscores the universality of the artist’s engraved landscapes and refutes a critic’s claims that Landacre participated in racism associated with Americans’ westward expansion.
Jake Milgram WienJan 30
- Art & Architecture
- History
A Slave Empire
Brooke N. Newman’s ‘The Crown’s Silence’ dives into the long history of transatlantic atrocities committed by Charles III’s ancestors in the name of empire.
Michael O’DonnellJan 29
- History
Our Animals and Other Family
An exhibition inspired by John Berger asks us to reconsider human-animal relations.
Max L. FeldmanJan 29
- Art & Architecture
Sister Acts: Why Nuns Are Showing Up Everywhere
What’s familiar and what’s new about our current fascination with the figure and the mystery of the nun, from Rosalía to self-help books.
Alexandra VeriniJan 28
An Uneasy Polemic
George Saunders’s latest ghost story, ‘Vigil,’ is a fanciful, tedious megaphone for its author, rather than for its characters.
Kazuo RobinsonJan 27
- Fiction
Life as It Should Be
Devon Halliday on the lure of reality TV in Stephen Fishbach’s novel ‘Escape!’
Devon HallidayJan 27
- Fiction
- Television
Walking Through the Valley of Teenage Rebellion
Madeline Cash talks with Hannah Tishkoff about how her upbringing in the Valley shaped her debut novel ‘Lost Lambs.’
Hannah TishkoffJan 26
- Fiction
Toward a More Creative Vampirism
Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ shines sunlight on the vampirism of cinematic AI and the ways studios have bled the vampire IP dry.
Ryan BedsaulJan 26
- Film
- Cultural Studies
When the Flames Went Out
Losing home and rebuilding, reluctantly, in the year after Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire.
Anthony Dinh TranJan 25
- Environment
- Memoir & Essay
Tricksters and the Spirit World
Julian Brave NoiseCat discusses ‘We Survived the Night,’ his genre-bending revival of the ‘Coyote epic,’ with Leila Nadir.
Leila NadirJan 24
- Cultural Studies
- Environment
Ascetic Ghosts in the Machine
M. D. Usher on Paul Kingsnorth’s impassioned and flawed new manifesto against the pervasiveness of technology in modern life.
M. D. UsherJan 24
- Philosophy & Religion
- Science & Technology
Lauren Rothery's 'Television'
Lauren Rothery talks about her new novel "Television," the current state of Hollywood, and why she thinks television is a good metaphor for romance.
LARB Radio HourJan 23
- LARB Radio Hour