Kate Wolf is a writer and one of the founding editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she’s currently editor at large and co-host and producer of its weekly podcast, the LARB Radio Hour. Her work has appeared in exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and publications including Bidoun, Bookforum, Art in America, Momus, The Nation, n+1, East of Borneo, and Frieze.
Kate Wolf
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.
Learning from Park Planned Homes
Kate Wolf considers Gregory Ain’s Altadena housing development in the wake of the Los Angeles fires.
Art in the Speculative City: A Conversation with Susanna Phillips Newbury
Kate Wolf speaks to Susanna Phillips Newbury, author of “The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles.”
“We Must Write Well”: On Cecilia Pavón’s “Little Joy”
Kate Wolf sorts through “Little Joy: Selected Stories” by Argentine author Cecilia Pavón, translated by Jacob Steinberg.
A Fundamentally Absurd Question: Talking with “Motherhood” Author Sheila Heti
Kate Wolf interviews “Motherhood” author Sheila Heti.
A Life in One Day
Kate Wolf on Christa Wolf's "One Day a Year: 2001-2011."
Streetwalker
Kate Wolf visits Lauren Elkin's "Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London."
Homesick: On Larry Sultan at LACMA
"In the photography of Larry Sultan, it’s the everyday, the ordinary, and the vernacular that prevail."
A Unified Vision
In his new book of photographs, Stephen Shore explores daily life in Israel and the West Bank — life aside from the conflict. But even life aside from the conflict must acknowledge the conflict.
The Ballad Continues: On Nan Goldin
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
The Charismatic Voice
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