LARB Radio Hour

Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher and Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf and Eric Newman, Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings, and discussions about all things literary.

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  LARB Radio Hour: Masha Gessen on Russia's Evolution from Soviet Socialism to Putinism

  Masha Gessen discusses her National Book Award-nominated "The Future of History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia."

  LARB Radio HourDec 30, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Errol Morris Explores the Death of Truth in America, Past and Present

  Errol Morris discusses his new film "Wormword," and how it relates to the current crisis of a government we feel we fundamentally can’t trust.

  LARB Radio HourDec 15, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: "Controversial Jews" With Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, and Eric Lax on Woody Allen

  This week's LARB Radio Hour features two full length interviews, both all about conspicuous, yet mysterious, New York Jews.

  LARB Radio HourDec 8, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Liska Jacobs’s "Catalina": A Crash and Burn Tale for Our Times; Plus Chris Kraus’s "Video Green"

  Author Liska Jacobs joins LARB to discuss her heralded first novel "Catalina."

  LARB Radio HourNov 26, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Robin Campillo's "BPM" Captures the Vitality and Tragedy of ACT UP Paris in the '90s; Plus Canine Lit

  LARB Radio HourNov 17, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Lynn Comella on the Feminist Sexual Revolution that Shook the Nation; Plus Katherine Heiny

  Lynn Comella, author of "Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure," discusses how a handful of feminist entrepreneurs in the 1970s helped women take greater control of their own bodies and pleasure.

  LARB Radio HourNov 10, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: An Israeli and Palestinian "Dinner at the Center of the Earth" with Nathan Englander; Plus Rachel Cusk's "Outline"

  Author Nathan Englander joins LARB to discuss his ambitious new novel "Dinner at the Center of the Earth," which is set inside the Israel-Palestine conflagration.

  LARB Radio HourNov 3, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Literary and Artistic Connections: Manchester to Oaxaca to LA; Plus, Pankaj Mishra's "Histories"

  Adam O’Riordan joins LARB Radio Hour to discuss how to strengthen Los Angeles’ literary ties across the pond, and Amanda de la Garza, curator of an exhibit of contemporary Oaxacan murals at the Downtown LA Library, discusses the powerful resonance of indigenous language, art, and tradition.

  LARB Radio HourOct 27, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Ai Weiwei on "Human Flow," Refugees, Art, History, Spirit, and Nature

  Artist, architect, and activist Ai Weiwei discusses his new feature-length documentary film "Human Flow," and the on-going global refugee crisis that it documents.

  LARB Radio HourOct 20, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Karen Tei Yamashita's "Letters to Memory"; Plus "Sylvia" by Leonard Michaels

  Karen Tei Yamashita, one of the most celebrated American novelists of her generation, turns historian/archeologist with "Letters to Memory," an investigation into the lived experience of the World War Two Japanese Internment Camps.

  LARB Radio HourOct 15, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: "Orange County: A Literary Field Guide"; Plus Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's Age of the Walkman

  Andrew Tonkovich discusses "Orange County: A Literary Field Guide" and Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow talks about the Sony Walkman, and her history/memoir "Personal Stereo," part of the Bloomsbury Object Lessons.

  LARB Radio HourOct 6, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Chiara Barzini's "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake"; Plus, "Play Dead" by Francine Harris

  Award-winning Italian screenwriter and novelist Chiara Barzini discusses "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake."

  LARB Radio HourSep 29, 2017