All Interviews

• 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
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  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
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  Souvenirs of the Future

  Megan EardleyJun 26, 2014
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  [VIDEO] Chip Kidd at the 2014 LA Times Book Fest

  Renowned book cover designer Chip Kidd speaks with LA Review of Books editor Laurie Winer at the 2014 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

  Laurie WinerJun 24, 2014

• Karl Ove Knausgaard, Himself

  Karl Ove Knausgaard: “All the people I know who write or make films, there’s something wrong with them. Disorder is a good word. If you don’t have that you don’t do it. It’s as simple as that.”

  Medaya OcherJun 15, 2014
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  PODCAST #62: Dana Goodyear

  Colin MarshallJun 12, 2014
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  The One and Only Geoff Dyer

  Jordan G. Teicher interviews the one and only Geoff Dyer.

  Jordan G. TeicherJun 11, 2014
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  It’s Just Like Watching Brazil

  Timothy SpanglerJun 11, 2014
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  PODCAST #61: Michelle Huneven

  Michelle Huneven is the author of Off Course, a novel about a grad-student setting off into self-imposed dissertation-writing exile.

  Colin MarshallJun 9, 2014
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  PODCAST #60: David Grand

  Colin Marshall talks with David Grand, author of Mount Terminus, a novel set at the intersection of the birth of cinema and modern Los Angeles.

  Colin MarshallMay 29, 2014
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  A Unified Vision

  In his new book of photographs, Stephen Shore explores daily life in Israel and the West Bank — life aside from the conflict. But even life aside from the conflict must acknowledge the conflict.

  Kate WolfMay 27, 2014
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  The Things We Wrote About: The Author of Redeployment on Military Conflict, the Craft of Fiction, and Coming Home

  Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the homefront — though promising, is deeply flawed.

  Michael LokessonMay 26, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

• Dancing with the Con

  An interview with Walter Kirn, author of "Blood Will Out"

  David BreithauptMay 25, 2014
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  PODCAST #59: Leslie Jamison

  Colin MarshallMay 14, 2014
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  Three Questions for Maceo Montoya

  Maceo Montoya manages to balance humor with pathos as he challenges our views on immigration, gender roles, and politics.

  Daniel A. OlivasMay 14, 2014