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All is Chaos
Diego Báez Interviews Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Diego BáezAug 7, 2014
John Michael McDonagh and Brendan Gleeson on "Calvary"
"Calvary", directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson, touches on questions of faith, forgiveness, and our responses to evil acts.
Aug 5, 2014
Don Franzen Talks with Lisa Bloom
Don Franzen talks to Lisa Bloom about Trayvon Martin.
Don FranzenAug 4, 2014
- Law
A World in Details: An Interview with Josh Weil
The best novels, I think, make you feel as if you’ve lived in another skin, or in another place, or another time — another world — by the time you’re done.
Alex EspinozaAug 2, 2014
Puppet Shows in a Swimming Pool: Surrealism, Punk, Poetry, and Contemporary Folklore According to Iceland’s Sjón
New from "Around the World"
Alex BaumhardtJul 30, 2014
Four Questions for Lily King
Margaret Mead wrote in a memoir that she and Bateson talked for 36 hours straight about their work when they met, but Mead did not go into detail about what they said. Lily King wanted to write a scene like that for her characters, so she had to do a ton of research and then make it all up.
Michelle HunevenJul 29, 2014
“The Writer Should Be Invisible”
In a Hallinan mystery novel, "we never, ever actually know who someone is, not completely."
Erica Ruth NeubauerJul 25, 2014
Why Is There a Crazy Caribbean Woman in the Attic?: Tiphanie Yanique on "Land of Love and Drowning"
When you think about the Caribbean and this particular place, the US Virgin Islands, you think about the “US” in the front. What does it mean to be American in this very specific kind of way?
Brooke ObieJul 23, 2014
Three Questions for Natalia Sylvester Regarding Her Debut Novel
Sylvester’s novel of kidnapping and terror in Peru.
Daniel A. OlivasJul 20, 2014
PODCAST #65: Geoff Nicholson
Colin MarshallJul 10, 2014
Five Questions and Five Answers with Dorothea Lasky
The start of a new LARB poetry column! Five Questions and Five Answers brought to us by Dorothea Lasky.
Dorothea LaskyJul 7, 2014
Understand This
An interview with Jervey Tervalon.
Caleb PowellJul 1, 2014
Subterranean Lives
“Infidelity has such an enduring appeal in novels because it’s shorthand for the idea that the life you show the world is not the real life you live.”
Anjali EnjetiJun 29, 2014
Unalienated Uncreativity: An Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith
Claire LuchetteJun 28, 2014
- Cultural Studies
Flacks, Profiteers and The Secret World of Oil
The secret world of oil
Michael BuschJun 27, 2014
Souvenirs of the Future
Megan EardleyJun 26, 2014