All Interviews

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  The Poetry of Chance

  Ben Borden and Zoe Koke discuss their relationship with reference and representation, and their two-person exhibition “Palingenesis.”

  Ben Borden, Zoe KokeApr 26

  • Art & Architecture

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  Building a Nest

  Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.

  Lauren Markham, Jenny OdellApr 25

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Environment

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  What Bad Art Lacks

  Chris Molnar interviews Naomi Falk about her new book, “The Surrender of Man.”

  Chris MolnarApr 22

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Art & Architecture

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  Painting Money

  Gracie Hadland talks to Paul Sietsema about his recent exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery.

  Gracie HadlandApr 20

  • Art & Architecture

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  To the Bottom of the Unknown to Discover the New

  Ronjaunee Chatterjee speaks with Nathan Brown about his new translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil.”

  Ronjaunee ChatterjeeApr 9

  • Poetry

  • Literary Criticism

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  Criticism as Apologetics

  Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu about her new book, “Authority.”

  Grace ByronApr 7

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Hazy Passages

  Tom Zoellner speaks with Sameer Pandya, author of “Our Beautiful Boys,” about football, India, teenage hazing, and the tyranny of success.

  Tom ZoellnerMar 28

  • Fiction

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  Working Out the Kinks

  Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”

  Brittany MenjivarMar 27

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Is the Media Alright?

  LARB Radio Hour presents excerpts from the February 2025 live discussion and podcast taping on the current challenges facing the media.

  Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Leslie Berestein Rojas, Oscar GarzaMar 24

  • Politics

  • Cultural Studies

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  The Thickness of Being

  Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.

  Jorie Graham, Forrest GanderMar 22

  • Poetry

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  Brimming with Pathos

  Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”

  Emily WellsMar 20

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Failures of Mirror Logic

  Megan Fernandes interviews Kiran Bath about “Instructions for Banno.”

  Megan FernandesMar 15

  • Poetry

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  As You Write It

  Nicole Graev Lipson about her debut collection, “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays.”

  Acree Graham MacamMar 12

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Double Vision and Full Dissolution

  Alix Christie interviews Andrea Barrett about “Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction.”

  Alix ChristieFeb 27

  • Fiction

  • Literary Criticism

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  The Airport of Human Experience

  Meghan Racklin interviews Haley Mlotek about her new memoir “No Fault.”

  Meghan RacklinFeb 22

  • Memoir & Essay

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  To Surrender Is to Forget

  Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Yaroslav Trofimov about his debut novel, “No Country for Love.”

  Sasha VasilyukFeb 20

  • Fiction