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When Story Loses the Plot
Hannah H. Kim ponders the plotless narrative as a tool for meaning-making.
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Tales from Two Critics: A.S. Hamrah and Melissa Anderson on the Year in Film
Film critics and authors A.S Hamrah and Melissa Anderson join the podcast to talk about 2025 in film, the Warner Bros. sale, AI use, and more.
Has English Killed Global Literature?
Chloe Garcia Roberts considers J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’s new book on translation.
He Understood Us
Carrie Courogen remembers the cross-genre brilliance of Rob Reiner’s filmmaking.
Taix
Anahid Nersessian people-watches at Taix in the most recent installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
There’s No Telling
Annie Berke considers timelines not taken in new novels by Erin Somers and Catherine Newman.
I Wanted to Tell a Different Story
Lydi Conklin discusses cancel culture, queer identity, and trauma responses with Anna Marie Cain.
Contact High: Anselm Kiefer at 80
Ranbir Sidhu visits two recent exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer in Greece and the Netherlands.
Isengard in Oxford
Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.
Happy Birthday, Jane!
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Stephanie Insley Hershinow offers a survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks.
Drawing America’s Brutal Imagination
Justin A. Davis writes on Ralph Bakshi’s controversial film “Coonskin” for its 50th anniversary, in a preview of the LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
Culture Never Recovered
From his rear window, M. Keith Booker reads the new anthology of stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
The Opposite of the World
Petala Ironcloud interviews Billy-Ray Belcourt about his new poetry collection.
Still Got It
Zach Gibson meditates on “late style” in the work of postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon who are still publishing well into their eighties.
A New Name for an Old Phenomenon
Michele Willens speaks with Danny Goldberg about his new book on the police beating of Rodney King and its aftermath.
An Apocalypse for Every Epoch
Emmett Rensin writes on eco-grief, the climate dirge, and one Armenian monk in a new hybrid fiction-cum-essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”
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