Medaya Ocher is the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Medaya Ocher
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Fourth of July Reading List
Here’s to another year of freedom.
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.
On the Los Angeles Fires
A note from LARB Editor in Chief
Archive Fever: Los Angeles Review of Books’ Post-Election Roundup
In light of the election, LARB editors present a selection of archival pieces that reveal what we know (and do not) about ourselves as a nation.
Fear of an Ill Planet: On the Importance of Sickness and the Demands of Otherness
In the 21st century are we the sick, or are they us?
What Are Novels For?: Privilege, Race, and Shelter in Nell Zink’s “Mislaid”
Zink delights in the possibilities of fiction and the pleasures of playing with words, one-liners, and genres.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Himself
Karl Ove Knausgaard: “All the people I know who write or make films, there’s something wrong with them. Disorder is a good word. If you don’t have that you don’t do it. It’s as simple as that.”
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