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Writer’s Block Bookstore in Winter Park, FL
Writer’s Block Bookstore in Winter Park, FL is now part of LARB's Reckless Reader program.
Sam RisakApr 8, 2019
Unwieldy Inheritances: On Olga Slavnikova’s Novel of New Russia, Read in New America
Leeore Schnairsohn takes the pulse of “The Man Who Couldn’t Die,” a novel by Olga Slavnikova, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
Leeore SchnairsohnApr 7, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
“Sing of Human Unsuccess / in a Rapture of Distress”: The Tragicomic Poetry of John Tottenham
Anthony Mostrom profiles Los Angeles’s premier poet of poems of regret and resentment, John Tottenham.
Anthony MostromApr 7, 2019
- Poetry
The Therapy of Desire: Toward a Revolutionary Philosophy
Samuel Loncar on the revolution we need today.
Samuel LoncarApr 7, 2019
- Philosophy & Religion
Stoked by a Racist Ad, a K-Pop Sex Scandal, and an Anti-Communist Massacre, Can the Korean Demand for Apology Ever Be Satiated?
Colin Marshall explores the art of the public apology in Korea.
Colin MarshallApr 7, 2019
Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde
To listen to Ilhan Mimaroğlu’s music is to be struck by the multitude of voices, geographies, and struggles with which he was engaged.
Helen MackreathApr 6, 2019
- Around the World
- Music
Rewriting the West: A Discussion About the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”
A conversation with Michelle García, Carolina A. Miranda, and Fernanda Santos of “Rewriting the West,” a partnership between Michelle García and “Guernica.”
Stephanie MalakApr 6, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- History
Writing on Water: A Conversation with Daisy Johnson on “Everything Under”
Amy E. Elkins talks to Daisy Johnson about her new novel, "Everything Under," which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Amy E. ElkinsApr 6, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction
Working with Rejection: John McNally's The Promise of Failure
Sarah Boon discusses rejection, the writing process, and John McNally's "The Promise of Failure."
Sarah BoonApr 6, 2019
Brooklyn's Loss is LA's Gain: Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico
Poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico talk about their respective new works, "Magical Negro" and "Junk."
LARB Radio HourApr 6, 2019
Whispers in the Bare Ruined Choir: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Crisis of Faith
Meghan O'Gieblyn's "Interior States" is an exemple of the kind of commentary that uses religious vocabulary to describe our current moment.
Ed SimonApr 5, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Religion
The Free Labor Force of Wives: A Conversation with French Feminist Writer Christine Delphy
Annie Hylton talks to French feminist Christine Delphy about domestic labor and #MeToo.
Annie HyltonApr 5, 2019
A Place of Vanishing: Barbara Newhall Follett and the Woman in the Woods
On the mysterious disappearance of a once-famous child author.
Daniel MillsApr 5, 2019
- Nonfiction
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan's failures and deceptions surrounding the museum's renovations.
Joseph GiovanniniApr 5, 2019
- Art & Architecture
In the Context of Discovery: Talking to Hugh H. Benson
Andy Fitch talks to Hugh H. Benson about his new book "Clitophon’s Challenge."
Andy FitchApr 5, 2019
When We Were Brothers: On the Writing of Daša Drndić
Lydia Perović considers the fundamental way in which the Yugoslav 1940s war of liberation structures and haunts all of Daša Drndić’s books.
Lydia PerovićApr 4, 2019
- Around the World
- Fiction