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Criticism as Apologetics
Grace Byron interviews Andrea Long Chu about her new book, “Authority.”
All Interviews
Hazy Passages
Tom Zoellner speaks with Sameer Pandya, author of “Our Beautiful Boys,” about football, India, teenage hazing, and the tyranny of success.
Working Out the Kinks
Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”
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.
The Thickness of Being
Jorie Graham and Forrest Gander discuss each other’s recent work.
Brimming with Pathos
Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”
Failures of Mirror Logic
Megan Fernandes interviews Kiran Bath about “Instructions for Banno.”
As You Write It
Nicole Graev Lipson about her debut collection, “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays.”
Double Vision and Full Dissolution
Alix Christie interviews Andrea Barrett about “Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction.”
The Airport of Human Experience
Meghan Racklin interviews Haley Mlotek about her new memoir “No Fault.”
To Surrender Is to Forget
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Yaroslav Trofimov about his debut novel, “No Country for Love.”
Punk and Academia’s Infinite Playlist
A. J. Urquidi asks Marcus Clayton about Prince, the woke mind virus, and his new book “¡PÓNK!”
Yet the Weapons Flow
As Sudanese civilians endure the world’s biggest displacement and humanitarian crises, uprooted political analyst Dallia Abdelmoniem unpacks the genocidal war in her country.
Bad Mood Rising
Arielle Gordon interviews Liz Pelly about her new book “Mood Machine” and Spotify’s impact on the music industry ecosystem.
Reassembling the Fragments
Anastasios Karnazes interviews Alan Gilbert about the new edition of his ongoing epic poem, “The Everyday Life of Design.”
Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem
Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.
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