Los Angeles Review of Books

A Singular Man
Jim Berg reviews Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.”
Jim BergAug 27
- Biography & Autobiography
Featured Artist
Simphiwe Mbunyuza
INTLOMBE is a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Simphiwe Mbunyuza recently on view at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Friday Night Is for the Good Boys
Can Sugar Daddy, Doctor KA, and Bicep Boyfriend form an alliance to save 4th Street from Insatiable Capitalism? A. J. Urquidi is on the scene to find...
A. J. UrquidiAug 27
Players with No Game
Madeleine Connors moves through the ranks while brushing off hopeful check-mates at the LA Chess Club Singles Arena in Koreatown.
Madeleine ConnorsAug 27
Our Defining Stains
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
Emmeline CleinAug 26
- Poetry
- Gender & Sexuality
GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
Jamie Hood, Sophia Stewart, Hillary Brenhouse, Daniel Lavery, Tal Rosenberg, Summer Kim Lee, Whitney Mallett, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Sophie Kemp, Natasha StaggAug 26
- LARB Lit
- Memoir & Essay

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Charlotte Shane’s “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work”
Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
LARB Radio HourAug 23

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The Impossibility of Children’s Television
Madeline Ullrich explores the contradictions of “children’s television” in the Max/ID series “Quiet on Set” and Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow.”
Madeline UllrichAug 25
In Bloom
Elena Megalos scrolls Instagram for images of a relationship that might have been, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Elena MegalosAug 25
- LARB Lit
- Memoir & Essay
Freudulence
Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB...
Jamieson WebsterAug 24
Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
Tim BrinkhofAug 24
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Charlotte Shane’s “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work”
Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
LARB Radio HourAug 23

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Friday Night Is for the Good Boys
Can Sugar Daddy, Doctor KA, and Bicep Boyfriend form an alliance to save 4th Street from Insatiable Capitalism? A. J. Urquidi is on the scene to find...
A. J. UrquidiAug 27
Players with No Game
Madeleine Connors moves through the ranks while brushing off hopeful check-mates at the LA Chess Club Singles Arena in Koreatown.
Madeleine ConnorsAug 27
Mortal Coil Shuffle
Tosten Burks finds himself among the labyrinth walkers of Los Angeles.
Tosten BurksAug 23
Are You Okay, My Love?
In Los Ageless, the winter may never come, but Madeleine Connors will keep runnin’ to the Greek Theatre to witness St. Vincent’s glam.
Madeleine ConnorsAug 22

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LARB Radio Hour

Charlotte Shane’s “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work”
Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
LARB Radio HourAug 23
Eugene Lim’s “Fog & Car”
Eric Newman speaks with Eugene Lim about his novel “Fog & Car.”
LARB Radio HourAug 16
Writing Climate Futures
Listen to a panel discussion featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake, hosted by LARB and The Berggruen Institute on July 18.
LARB Radio HourAug 9
Pessimism and Politics
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman consider the role of pessimism in our approach to contemporary politics.
LARB Radio HourAug 2