Best of 2024

It’s time for our favorite episode of the year. Hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman discuss their favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, scandals, and (new category!) memories of 2024.

By LARB Radio HourDecember 20, 2024

    Keep LARB paywall-free.


    As a nonprofit publication, we depend on readers like you to keep us free. Through December 31, all donations will be matched up to $100,000.


    Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud

    Do you love listening to the LARB Radio Hour? Support the production of this weekly podcast on books, art, and culture. Donate today.


    It’s time for our favorite episode of the year. Hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman discuss their favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, scandals, and (new category!) memories of 2024.


    LARB RADIO HOUR PICKS OF 2024


    Books

    In Memoriam, Alice Winn

    On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy, Simon Critchley

    This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud

    Amos & Boris, William Steig

    A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, Nathan Thrall

    The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz

    I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, Lucy Sante

    Love Junkie, Robert Plunket

    All Fours, Miranda July

    Selected Amazon Reviews, Kevin Killian

    Cut ’n’ Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music, Dick Hebdige


    Classics: Wuthering HeightsThe House of Mirth


    Movies

    Anora, directed by Sean Baker

    Femme, directed by Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping

    Longlegs, directed by Osgood Perkins

    The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat

    Janet Planet, directed by Annie Baker

    Winner, directed by Susanna Fogel

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, directed by William Greaves

    Love Streams, directed by John Cassavetes


    Eric’s Queer Films of Note: Love Lies Bleeding | Challengers

    Medaya’s Rewatches: Moonstruck | 8 Mile


    TV Shows 

    John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In LA

    Real Housewives of Beverly Hills / Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

    Agatha All Along

    Baby Reindeer

    X-Men ’97

    Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

    Social Studies

    Selling Sunset


    Music

    Charli XCX, Brat

    Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other

    Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

    Larry Levan

    Linda and Richard Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

    Laura Marling, Patterns in Repeat

    Cindy Lee, Diamond Jubilee


    Scandals

    Hawk Tuah Coin Fraud

    Bennifer Breakup

    Olivia Nuzzi & RFK Jr affair


    Memory

    Discovering the abundance of California Cudweed/Everlasting 

    Motorcycle license

    The brief, joyous prospect of spending a week in NYC without a smartphone

    LARB Contributor

    The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.

    Share

    LARB Staff Recommendations