Andrea Long Chu’s “Authority”
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher speak with Andrea Long Chu about “Authority,” a collection of previously published and new essays and criticism.
By LARB Radio HourApril 11, 2025
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Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher speak with Andrea Long Chu about Authority, a collection of previously published and new essays and criticism. Authority interrogates what it means to be a critic today, analyzing the work that the critic does in interpreting a book, film, or TV show for us as well as how the status of the critic has developed from antiquity to the present. Andrea, Medaya, and Eric talk about finding one’s voice as a critic, how the critic approaches an object of analysis, and the increasingly siloed role of the full-time critic in an era of tectonic shifts in the media landscape.
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