Eric Newman is a writer, critic, and researcher whose work explores questions of race, belonging, identity, and utopian imagination in 20th century queer American culture. A former reporter for Condé Nast and Nielsen Business Media, he is currently the gender and sexuality editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, co-host and executive producer of the LARB Radio Hour on KPFK L.A. 90.7 FM, and a lecturer in English at UCLA. He lives in Santa Monica.
Eric Newman
Articles
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.
Dreaming New Worlds: A Conversation with Ekow Eshun
Eric Newman interviews Ekow Eshun, curator of “In the Black Fantastic,” a recent speculative arts exhibit at London’s Hayward Gallery and its eponymous companion book from MIT Press.
The Unchanging Same: On Édouard Louis’s “A Woman’s Battles and Transformations”
Eric Newman on Édouard Louis's "A Woman’s Battles and Transformations."
Liberating the Archives: Hugh Ryan’s “Women’s House of Detention”
Eric Newman interviews Hugh Ryan about the queer carceral history of his new book, “The Women’s House of Detention”
Claude McKay in Our Time: A Conversation with Gary Holcomb and William J. Maxwell on “Romance in Marseille”
Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell on the publication of Claude McKay’s “Romance in Marseille.”
Cruising Happiness: On Garth Greenwell’s “Cleanness”
Eric Newman reviews the latest from Garth Greenwell, “Cleanness.”
Pointing to the Trap
LARB gender and sexuality editor Eric Newman considers “Females” by Andrea Long Chu.
“Call Me by Your Name” Gets a Dubious Sequel in André Aciman’s “Find Me”
Eric Newman reviews “Find Me,” André Aciman’s underwhelming sequel to “Call Me by Your Name.”
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