Paul Thompson is a senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, New York, Pitchfork, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

Paul Thompson

It’s All Pastiche: On Todd Field’s “TÁR”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

I Don’t Worry About My Oeuvre: A Conversation with John Carpenter

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

The Girl and the Outlaw: Jordan Peele’s “Nope” and the End of the Alien

LARB Lit

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Paul Thompson is a senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, New York, Pitchfork, and The Washington Post, among other publications.