LA Review of Books

Hernan Diaz's "Trust"

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher speak with writer Hernan Diaz about his latest novel Trust, which tells a single story from multiple perspectives, or rat...

Celia Paul's "Letters to Gwen John"

13 May 2022

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by acclaimed artist and writer Celia Paul to speak about her latest book Letters to Gwen John, an epistolary mem...

Douglas Stuart's "Young Mungo"

06 May 2022

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Author Douglas Stuart joins Eric Newman to talk about his new novel Young Mungo. Stuart's previous work, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and t...

Margo Jefferson's "Constructing a Nervous System"

29 Apr 2022

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Writer and critic Margo Jefferson joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir. A formally inventive and ex...

Andrey Kurkov's "Grey Bees"

22 Apr 2022

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On this special LARB Book Club edition of the Radio Hour, Boris Dralyuk and Lindsay Wright are joined by Andrey Kurkov, one of Ukraine's leading liter...

Patti Smith's "The Melting"

15 Apr 2022

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with musician, author, artist and all-around legend Patti Smith about her latest work, The Melting, an extended piece...

NoViolet Bulawayo's "Glory"

08 Apr 2022

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NoViolet Bulawayo joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her latest novel, Glory, which explores the waning days and political ouster of Rob...

John Markoff's "Whole Earth" and Ulysses Jenkins's "Without Your Interpretation"

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week it’s a LARB Radio doubleheader. In the first half of the show, Kate Wolf talks with John Markoff about his latest book, Whole Earth: The M...

Danielle Lindemann's "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us"

25 Mar 2022

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Danielle Lindemann joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her latest book, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. Drawing on the ideas o...

Adam Phillips's "On Wanting to Change" and "On Getting Better"

18 Mar 2022

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Adam Phillips joins Kate Wolf to discuss his two latest books, both published this year, On Wanting to Change and On Getting Better. The series looks ...

Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide"

11 Mar 2022

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Pankaj Mishra joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about his new novel, Run and Hide, which takes up many of the themes explored in his politica...

Claire-Louise Bennett's "Checkout 19"

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Claire-Louise Bennett, whose new novel is Checkout 19. It follows an unnamed young woman born into a working-...

Isaac Butler's "The Method"

25 Feb 2022

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Writer Isaac Butler joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to speak about his new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act which w...

Lewis R. Gordon’s “Fear of Black Consciousness”

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis R. Gordon, head of the philosophy department at the University of Connecticut, joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about his latest book,...

Sheila Heti's "Pure Colour"

11 Feb 2022

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Sheila Heti joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about her latest novel, Pure Colour. A mythical and tender telling of the life of a woman named ...

Francesco Pacifico "The Women I Love"

04 Feb 2022

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Italian author Francesco Pacifico talks with hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher about his latest novel, The Women I Love, which follows an editor and po...

Neel Patel's "Tell Me How To Be":

28 Jan 2022

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Eric and Medaya are joined by Neel Patel, an author and TV writer based in Los Angeles, to talk about his debut novel, Tell Me How To Be. The novel o...

Tochi Onyebuchi's "Goliath"

21 Jan 2022

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Eric and Kate are joined by Tochi Onyebuchi to discuss his debut adult science fiction novel Goliath. Told through a series of vignettes, Goliath medi...

Gary Shteyngart's "Our Country Friends"

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Boris Dralyuk, LARB’s Editor-in-Chief, joins Medaya Ocher for a very special ex-Soviet edition of the LARB Book Club and Radio Hour. The guest of ho...

Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism and Fiction

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Author, activist, and novelist Arundhati Roy joins us from Delhi to discuss her new collection of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Roy is wel...

The Best of 2021 Show

31 Dec 2021

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It’s that time of year again — the end. In our annual “best of” show, Kate, Daya, and Eric select their favorite books, movies, TV shows, podc...

Anna Della Subin’s “Accidental Gods”

24 Dec 2021

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk with Anna Della Subin about her new book, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. Accidental Gods traces th...

Sam Quinones’s “The Least of Us”

17 Dec 2021

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Award-winning author and investigative journalist Sam Quinones joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his latest book, The Least of Us: True Tale...

Online Together: A Roundtable Discussion with Christoph Bieber, Safiya Noble, and Anna Wiener

11 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf moderate a panel on the use, abuse, and omnipresence of digital technology in our lives — with writers and scholars Chris...

James Hannaham's "Pilot Impostor"

03 Dec 2021

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Writer and artist James Hannaham joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his most recent book, Pilot Impostor, a mix of prose, poetry, and visual ...

Melissa Anderson's "Inland Empire" and Pippa Garner's "Immaculate Misconceptions"

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Kate Wolf is joined by Melissa Anderson to discuss her first book, Inland Empire, a volume in Fireflies Press’s Decad...

José Vadi’s “Inter State: Essays from California”

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Essayist, poet, playwright, and filmmaker José Vadi joins Eric Newman to discuss his debut essay collection, Inter State. José’s first play, a eul...

Ruth Ozeki's "The Book of Form and Emptiness"

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ruth Ozeki is a writer, filmmaker, Zen Buddhist priest, and author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being...

Tom McCarthy's "The Making of Incarnation"

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Tom McCarthy, author of the contemporary classic, Remainder, as well as of the novels C and Satin Island, b...

Natalie Diaz: Postcolonial Love Poem

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a special LARB Book Club installment of the Radio Hour, Boris Dralyuk and Callie Siskel speak with poet Natalie Diaz about her collection Postcolon...

Todd Haynes: The Velvet Underground

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate, Daya, and Eric speak with director Todd Haynes about his latest movie, and first documentary, The Velvet Underground, which shows just how the l...

Dodie Bellamy's "Bee Reaved;" and Mia Hansen-Love's on Bergman Island

14 Oct 2021

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Writer Dodie Bellamy joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest collection, Bee Reaved. The book gathers nearly 20 essays Bellamy has written over the ...

Kelefa Sanneh's "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres"

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf speaks with writer Kelefa Sanneh about his debut book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. An exhaustive, enthralling ...

Cynthia Cruz’s “The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class”

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Cynthia Cruz to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, ...

Betsy West and Julie Cohen: My Name is Pauli Murray

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by documentary filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who are perhaps best known for RGB, their Academy Award-...

Amia Srinivasan: The Right to Sex

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by writer, critic, and philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whose new book is The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Cen...

Maggie Nelson: "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint"

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Maggie Nelson to discuss her latest book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. In 2015, Nelson’...

Kaveh Akbar's "Pilgrim Bell"

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by poet Kaveh Akbar to talk about his latest collection, Pilgrim Bell. Whereas Akbar's previous collection, Ca...

Rachel Greenwald Smith On Compromise

27 Aug 2021

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rachel Greenwald Smith to discuss her new book, On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ide...

Matthew Specktor’s “Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California”

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Specktor, one of the founding editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books, joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his newest book, Always ...

Nawaaz Ahmed's Radiant Fugitives

13 Aug 2021

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Eric Newman talks with Nawaaz Ahmed about his debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, which loosely centers on Seema, a woman who makes a life for herself as ...

Hogir Hirori, Director of Sabaya

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Hogir Hirori to talk about his latest film, Sabaya, which documents the heroic efforts to rescue women and ...

Katie Kitamura's "Intimacies"

30 Jul 2021

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Katie Kitamura to discuss her latest novel, Intimacies, an existential thriller that follows an unnamed narra...

Rivka Galchen: Everybody Knows Your Mother is a Witch

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rivka Galchen, whose new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, is set in the Holy Roman Empire in 17t...

Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground

16 Jul 2021

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Boris Dralyuk and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Claire Fuller to discuss her new novel, Unsettled Ground, this season’s selection for the LARB B...

Zakiya Dalila Harris: The Other Black Girl

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric and Medaya are joined by Zakiya Dalila Harris to discuss The Other Black Girl; her sharp and often funny debut novel that centers large contempor...

Davarian L. Baldwin: In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Eric speak with writer and historian Davarian L. Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding direct...

Kristen Arnett: With Teeth

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric and Medaya talk with queer writer Kristen Arnett about her knew novel, With Teeth, which centers on the troubled relationships between Sammie, he...

Kate Zambreno: To Write As If Already Dead; & Susan Bernofsky: Clairvoyant of the Small

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's show we're joined by two authors, Kate Zambreno and Susan Bernofsky, who have both written a magisterial work about a past literary mas...

Joan Silber: Secrets of Happiness

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Author Joan Silber, whose previous work Improvement won both the National Book Critic’s Circle Aware and the Pen Faulkner Award, joins Kate and Eric...

Carol Anderson's The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Carol Anderson, whose previous work White Rage won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, joins Kate and Eric to discuss her latest bo...

Matthew Heineman: The Boy from Medellin

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman joins Eric to talk about his latest documentary, THE BOY FROM MEDELLIN, which centers on reggeton superstar J Balvin (the v...

Sarah Schulman: Let the Record Show ACT UP NYC, 1987-93

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Sarah Schulman joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987-1993. A longtime ac...

Jacqueline Rose: On Violence and On Violence Against Women

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Medaya are joined by feminist critic Jacqueline Rose to discuss her new book On Violence  and On Violence Against Women.  Jacqueline's addr...

Larissa Pham's Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brooklyn-based artist and writer Larissa Pham joins Medaya and Eric to discuss her debut collection Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy. Larissa ...

Helen Oyeyemi: Peaces

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eric and Daya are joined by acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, whose latest novel is Peaces. The plot involves two young lovers, Otto and Xavier Shin, wh...

George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On a special LARB Book Club episode of the Radio Hour, Boris Dralyuk and Medaya Ocher are joined by George Saunders, author of four collections of vir...

Nick Pinkerton Says Goodbye to Dragon Inn

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf is joined by writer and film critic Nick Pinkerton to discuss his book-length essay on Tsai Ming-liang’s film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, which r...

Rachel Kushner Amongst The Hard Crowd

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Medaya are joined by Rachel Kushner, author previously of Telex from Cuba and the Flamethrowers, both nominated for the National Book Award, ...

Jackie Wang: The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Medaya talk with poet, essayist, and critic Jackie Wang about her new collection of poetry The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Voi...

Jo Ann Beard's Festival Days

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Medaya talks with renowned essayist and fiction writer Jo Ann Beard, whose latest collection is called Festival Days. Near the beginning of the book, ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Disordered Cosmos

19 Mar 2021

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Eric Newman is joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to discuss her book The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Def...

Contrasting Interiors: Christine Smallwood's Life of the Mind and Sara Davis' Scapegoat

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Medaya speak with two heralded debut novelists. First up is Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind, about Dorothy, a failing adj...

Brian Dillon Supposes a Sentence

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Medaya welcome essayist Brian Dillon, author of Suppose a Sentence which offers sharp analysis (along with intriguing discursus) of 27 senten...

Claudio Lomnitz's Nuestra America: A Jewish Latin American Odyssey

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wolf talks with Claudio Lomnitz, author of Nuestra America: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation, which traces his family's history in the Jew...

Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Daya talk with Lauren Oyler, one of the country's leading literary critics, about her first novel, Fake Accounts; which is about a central ch...

Valentine Special: Gay Bars and Boyfriends with Jeremy Atherton Lin and Brontez Purnell

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A double dip, rife with romance, and right on time for a celebration of sex and love. First, Jeremy Atherton Lin joins Eric and Medaya to talk about h...

From The Break to Bridgerton with Taylor Renee Aldridge and Patricia A Matthew

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week it's a doubleheader. First, Eric and Medaya, speak with Taylor Renee Aldridge, the Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California...

Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, whose new book is called Under a ...

Kink Lit: A Conversation with R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a special LARB Book Club edition of the Radio Hour, Eric Newman and Boris Dralyuk sit down with R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, co-editors of Kink...

The Delightful Rage of Fran Lebowitz Revisited

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this encore presentation, on the occasion of Fran Lebowitz's new show Pretend It's a City, Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with legen...

National Book Award Winner Charles Yu Interior Chinatown: Satire, Metafiction, & Anti-Racism

09 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In an encore presentation, Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his book, Interior Chinatown; an experim...

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans

02 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to talk about The Undocumented Americans, which is both a memoir and a se...

Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva

26 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Big Freedia is a 21st Century musical trailblazer from the Dirty South, who emerged from the Bounce music scene in New Orleans and has helped populari...

Best of the Worst Year Ever Show

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kate, Medaya, and Eric look back at a year that many of us can't wait to put behind us. Against the background of the pandemic and the politics, the h...

Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eric, Kate, and Medaya talk with Kiese about the struggle to buy his work back from the original publisher in order to revise and republish them, an e...

Alex Ross in Wagner's Shadows

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Medaya and Eric are joined by Alex Ross, the New Yorker's longtime music critic and author of Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadows of Music. Wag...

The Magic World of Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week co-hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by author Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, whose latest book is the collection of short stories Likes. Sarah dis...

Alexander Nanau's Collective Nightmare for Our Time

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Kate and Eric speak with filmmaker Alexander Nanau about his stunning new documentary Collective about corruption in the Romanian Hospital sy...

The Election and a Changing America: LARB Politics Editor Tom Zoellner on The National Road

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re joined by Tom Zoellner, award-winning author and the LA Review of Books Politics Editor. Tom and the co-hosts talk about the election, the ten...

Bryan Washington's Memorial; and Election Reflections

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week's show opens with Kate, Eric, and Medaya sharing their thoughts on the morning after Election Day. At the time, Joe Biden seemed to have a p...

Women Against the Odds: Talking to Filmmaker Garrett Bradley & Art Legends, the Guerrilla Girls

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have filmmaker Garrett Bradley discussing her new documentary Time, which follows a larger-than-life matriarch, fighting for the release...

Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine,  joins Eric and Kate to discuss the “social industry" — online platforms that monetize and man...

Suzanne Nossle on Local News

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Suzanne Nossel, of PEN America, on the decimation of the local news landscape.

Talking to Alain Mabanckou, author of Black Moses

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A special episode, featuring Alain Mabanckou, author of "Black Moses," our latest pick for LARB’s members-only Book Club. Mabanckou is an award-winn...

Homeland Elegies: Ayad Akhtar on mourning America

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Akhtar talks about his new book Homeland Elegies, a hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism, psychological study, and loosely plotted novel that uniquely...

The Only Reader is a Re-Reader: Talking to Vivian Gornick

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we’re joined by acclaimed writer and critic Vivian Gornick. Gornick began her career in 1969, as a staff writer for The Village Voice. ...

Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism & Fiction

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author, activist, and novelist Arundhati Roy joins us from Delhi to discuss her new collection of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Roy is we...

Friendship and Mortality in a Plague Year: Sigrid Nunez on What Are You Going Through

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author Sigrid Nunez, who won the National Book Award for 2018's The Friend, joins Kate and Eric to talk about her new novel, What Are You Going Throug...

A Different Addiction Story: Yaa Gyasi talks about Transcendent Kingdom

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yaa Gyasi’s latest novel, Transcendent Kingdom, takes on family and the gulfs of diaspora experience through an intimate narrative of a neuroscienti...

Kelli Jo Ford, author of Crooked Hallelujah, on Love and the End Times

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Kate and Medaya talk to Kelli Jo Ford, author of the new novel, Crooked Hallelujah, a multi-generational story about Justine — a mixed-blood C...

Yan Lianke, author of Three Brothers, on Chinese Life, Law, and Literature

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Kate, Eric, and Medaya are joined by renowned Chinese writer Yan Lianke, whose latest book is the memoir Three Brothers, about his childhood g...

An Alpaca and a Llama Walk into a Bar: Talking to Joni Murphy, author of Talking Animals

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by writer Joni Murphy, whose new novel, Talking Animals, takes place in a fictional New York City, populated entir...

Life In Between: Awkaeke Emezi on their new novel The Death of Vivek Oji

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Eric and Medaya are joined by the writer Awkaeke Emezi, whose new novel The Death of Vivek Oji, explores the life and death of a young transgend...

Talking Tomboys with Melissa Faliveno

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eric and Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland, parse the history of the tomboy, its queer geographic and temporal character, as part of a broader di...

Aminatou and Ann's Big Friendship

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Authors Aminatou Sow and Ann Friendman join co-hosts Kate and Medaya to discuss their exploration of their friend, and close adult friendships in gene...

Talking “Breasts and Eggs” with Japan’s Rising Literary Star, Mieko Kawakami

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mieko Kawakami, whose poignant and pointed debut novel Breasts and Eggs is this season’s LARB’s Book Club selection, joins Medaya Ocher and Boris ...

When Reform Isn't Enough: Afropessimism's Argument for a New Society

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III, whose latest book, Afropessimism, is a work ...

French Connections: Hirokazu Kore-eda on The Truth; Joyce Zonana on Henri Bosco’s Malicroix

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Medaya speaks with acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda about his new film, The Truth (La Vérité), starring French film screen legends C...

From Pride Month to Independence Day: the story of Frank Kameny, an LBGBTQ+ Trailblazer

04 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author Eric Cervini Cervini explains Frank Kameny's legacy as a complex figure in the history of the LGBTQ struggle, as he discusses his new book The ...