Michelle Chihara

Michelle Chihara (MFA, PhD UC Irvine) is the former editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Studies in American Fiction, n+1, Trop Magazine, Green Mountains Review, the Santa Monica Review, Echoes, Mother Jones, and The Boston Phoenix, among others. Her research involves real estate, financial panics, and contemporary culture. You can find her online at michellechihara.com.

Articles

A New Look for LARB: A Conversation with Ella Gold
LARB editor Michelle Chihara speaks with graphic designer Ella Gold about the website’s new look.
Michelle ChiharaNov 20, 2023
- Art & Architecture
Pillows of Air: A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 39 “Air,” Michelle Chihara interviews Lawrence Weschler about his ancestry, his relationship to Los Angeles, his time at NYU, and more.
Michelle ChiharaOct 6, 2023
Calm Can Coexist with Fury: A Conversation with Naomi Klein
Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Naomi Klein about her new book,“Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
Michelle ChiharaSep 14, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Politics
Let’s Be Neurotic Together: A Conversation with Cathy Park Hong
Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara speaks with author Cathy Park Hong.
Michelle ChiharaSep 12, 2023
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
Illicit, Offshore, Shadow, Invisible: Financial Thrillers and Global Capital
In a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 38: Earth, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Chihara explores the opaque world of global finance.
Michelle ChiharaJul 24, 2023
- Economics and Finance
- LARB Lit
Eat, Pray, Know When to Hold ’Em: A Profile of Annie Duke
LARB’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Chihara, profiles the elusive pokergenius–turned-author Annie Duke.
Michelle ChiharaJan 26, 2023
- Economics and Finance
Visible Faultlines: A Conversation with the Authors of “Unprecedented? How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy”
In “Unprecedented? How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy,” a group of political economists use a single and precise metaphor — photosynthesis — to bring the broad social consequences of the pandemic into focus.
Michelle ChiharaOct 6, 2022
- Economics and Finance
- Science & Technology
Strategic Audio: Podcasts, Propaganda, and the Fairy Tales of Data Mining
Michelle Chihara explores the podcast form as a vehicle for corporate puffery masquerading as journalistic inquiry.
Michelle ChiharaJun 24, 2021
- Cultural Studies
LARB Lit: Choose
Michelle ChiharaMay 20, 2017
- LARB Lit
You’re The Puppet: Trump, the Death of Truth, and the Silence of the Left
Tom Zoellner and Michelle Chihara on recreating a shared vision of a progressive nation.
Michelle Chihara, Tom ZoellnerNov 25, 2016
- Politics
Neighbors
Michelle Chihara on her family's history during Japanese internment and holding on to hope.
Michelle ChiharaNov 25, 2016
- Politics
What We Talk About When We Talk About Finance
The idea that finance is the naturally complex lifeblood of our economy whose path only a rarefied group of white men can chart: that’s a trope.
Michelle ChiharaSep 18, 2015
- Economics and Finance
- Politics
Kingmakers
True Detective and the HBO Brand
Michelle ChiharaJun 21, 2015
- Television
Being Theon Greyjoy, or Why This Dick In A Box Matters
Politics of the penis in government and Game of Thrones.
Michelle ChiharaOct 12, 2013