All Interviews

• Possessed, or Eavesdropping

  Eden Lepucki on Writing

  Jordan G. TeicherAug 12, 2014
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  From Whodunits to Why Bother? Noir at MoMA

  Bruce Bennett and Dave Kehr talk about Harry Cohn, Columbia Pictures, and crime films.

  Bruce BennettAug 12, 2014

• "Marry Someone who Makes You Laugh"

  Point of view will always be there consciously or unconsciously — but if it’s there unconsciously, it gets feral and doesn’t serve your work.

  Claire CameronAug 11, 2014
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  Strong, Weird, Smart Women of Noir: Q&A with Elizabeth Little

  Deborah Shapiro interviews Elizabeth Little about her new novel and genre fiction as a support group.

  Deborah ShapiroAug 8, 2014

• All is Chaos

  Diego Báez Interviews Yelena Akhtiorskaya

  Diego BáezAug 7, 2014
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  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
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  Don Franzen Talks with Lisa Bloom

  Don Franzen talks to Lisa Bloom about Trayvon Martin.

  Don FranzenAug 4, 2014

  • Law

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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Three Questions for Natalia Sylvester Regarding Her Debut Novel

  Sylvester’s novel of kidnapping and terror in Peru.

  Daniel A. OlivasJul 20, 2014
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  PODCAST #65: Geoff Nicholson

  Colin MarshallJul 10, 2014
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  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
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  Understand This

  An interview with Jervey Tervalon.

  Caleb PowellJul 1, 2014