Rob Latham

Rob Latham is a LARB senior editor.

Back to the New Wave Future
Rob Latham reviews Harlan Ellison’s anthology “The Last Dangerous Visions” and the 60th anniversary issue of Michael Moorcock’s “New Worlds” magazine.
Rob LathamNov 23, 2024
- SF
A Treasure Trove of Suppressed Feeling
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
Rob LathamJul 23, 2024
- Fiction
“The Fringe Is Where the Fun Really Happens”: A Conversation with Kathe Koja
The author discusses her versatile career and her first horror novel in decades, “The Dark Factory.”
Rob LathamMay 10, 2022
- SF
Lost Beneath the Waves of Time: Jane Gaskell in/and the ’60s
Remembering one of the most celebrated — and now largely forgotten — writers of an unforgettable decade.
Rob LathamFeb 21, 2022
- Fiction
A Revisionist Mythos: Frankenstein Versus Cthulhu
New novels by Kim Newman and Michael Shea illustrate the power of popular myth.
Rob LathamNov 6, 2021
- SF
Stephen King’s Mind Crimes
The celebrated horror novelist is rapidly becoming one of our best contemporary crime writers.
Rob LathamOct 11, 2021
- Noir
A Remembered World: On Russell Banks’s “Foregone”
Russell Banks’s new novel “Foregone” is his most metafictional work to date.
Rob LathamMay 5, 2021
- Fiction
Febrile Magic
A superb collection of short and long (mostly long) stories by an award-winning fantasy author.
Rob LathamMar 6, 2021
- SF