Archive

You Belong Here: A Conversation with Aditi Khorana and Sara Saedi
Juliana Romano talks to Aditi Khorana and Sara Saedi about their new books.
Juliana RomanoFeb 16, 2018
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
LARB Radio Hour: Love and Jealousy with Giulia Sissa
Giulia Sissa, Professor of Classics and Political Science at UCLA, joins us to discuss her new book "Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion."
LARB Radio HourFeb 16, 2018
Queer Desires, Queer Disagreements
Will Clark explores “The Ethics of Opting Out” as an introduction to key debates in contemporary queer theory and a path to a more engaged queer politics.
Will ClarkFeb 16, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Philosophy & Religion
Literatainment: A Personal Breakthrough
Ryan McIlvain reflects on the possibilities of merging high-brow literature with low-brow entertainment.
Ryan McIlvainFeb 16, 2018
- Literary Criticism
The Space of Lived Time in the Prose Line: Talking to Jessica Fisher
Andy Fitch interviews Jessica Fisher about "Inmost," winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Andy FitchFeb 16, 2018
The United States’s Sacred Gun Problem
The American fetish for firearms goes back to the nation’s genocidal roots, a new book argues.
Mark TreckaFeb 15, 2018
- History
- Politics
Vietnam Comes Home
The Vietnam War came home in scattered flashes of horror and memory.
Paulina BorsookFeb 15, 2018
- History
- Politics
Listening to the Dolphins: Leo Szilard on Nuclear War
When a nuclear physicist turns to fiction.
Duncan Alan HoladayFeb 15, 2018
- SF
- Science & Technology
The Chiming Bells of Mortality
Jeffrey Tayler on the Greek literature that he turned to after his father's death.
Jeffrey TaylerFeb 15, 2018
Jonny Greenwood’s New Baroque
Will Gottsegen on the score to Oscar-nominee "Phantom Thread," written by Jonny Greenwood.
Will GottsegenFeb 15, 2018
This Is My Name: A Conversation with Vievee Francis
Nomi Stone interviews Vievee Francis.
Nomi StoneFeb 14, 2018
- Poetry
Giant Mezuzahs: The Yiddishkeit of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Deborah Krieger on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," in which Jewish characters and their community are the default.
Deborah KriegerFeb 14, 2018
- Television
Dissolving Identities: On Cristina Rivera Garza’s “The Iliac Crest”
Rachel Ballenger dwells in “The Iliac Crest,” a novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker.
Rachel BallengerFeb 14, 2018
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Talking with Two Young Authors from ANTHOLOGY: The Ojai Playwrights Conference Youth Workshop 2006-2016
Two young authors discuss "ANTHOLOGY: The Ojai Playwrights Conference Youth Workshop 2006-2016," to which they contributed.
Tim CummingsFeb 14, 2018
A Gnostic Gospel for the Now: B. K. Fischer’s “Radioapocrypha”
Heather Treseler reviews B. K. Fischer’s “Radioapocrypha.”
Heather TreselerFeb 13, 2018
- Poetry
Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race
Safiya Umoja Noble’s “Algorithms of Oppression” explores how racial bias informs and shapes the very platform we laud as radically democratizing.
Emily DrabinskiFeb 13, 2018
- Science & Technology