Rob Latham is a LARB senior editor.
Rob Latham
Articles
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
A Revisionist Mythos: Frankenstein Versus Cthulhu
New novels by Kim Newman and Michael Shea illustrate the power of popular myth.
Stephen King’s Mind Crimes
The celebrated horror novelist is rapidly becoming one of our best contemporary crime writers.
A Remembered World: On Russell Banks’s “Foregone”
Russell Banks’s new novel “Foregone” is his most metafictional work to date.
Febrile Magic
A superb collection of short and long (mostly long) stories by an award-winning fantasy author.
The Ineluctable Agon of Desire: Joyce Carol Oates’s Suspense Fiction
The prolific author has produced, sometimes under pseudonyms, a rich harvest of taut, stylish thrillers.
Man in the Maze: A Conversation with Robert Silverberg
A Grand Master talks about his career and the evolution of the SF marketplace since the 1950s.
The News They Wanted Not to Hear: On Robert Stone
Three new books offer an embarrassment of riches for fans of Robert Stone.
Zones of Possibility: Science Fiction and the Coronavirus
George R. Stewart’s 1949 novel “Earth Abides” offers an eerie augury our COVID-19 crisis.
An Ersatz Wonderland: On Stephen Wright’s “Processed Cheese”
Stephen Wright’s new novel is a scathingly funny satire of an ad-saturated, media-distracted, money-dominated society.
Kim Newman’s Dazzling Genre Multiverse
Rob Latham reviews the latest novel in Kim Newman’s “Anno Dracula” series.
Anatomy of a Neo-Noir Masterpiece
A richly detailed new study of the best movie ever made about Los Angeles.
An Uneven Showcase of 1960s SF
Rob Latham reviews the new Library of America set of 1960s SF novels.
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