All Interviews

• “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

• 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