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Jim Berg reviews Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.”
Jim Berg reviews Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.”
INTLOMBE is a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Simphiwe Mbunyuza recently on view at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.
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...
Madeleine Connors moves through the ranks while brushing off hopeful check-mates at the LA Chess Club Singles Arena in Koreatown.
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
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Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
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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.”
Elena Megalos scrolls Instagram for images of a relationship that might have been, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB...
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
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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...
Madeleine Connors moves through the ranks while brushing off hopeful check-mates at the LA Chess Club Singles Arena in Koreatown.
Tosten Burks finds himself among the labyrinth walkers of Los Angeles.
In Los Ageless, the winter may never come, but Madeleine Connors will keep runnin’ to the Greek Theatre to witness St. Vincent’s glam.
Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work.”
Eric Newman speaks with Eugene Lim about his novel “Fog & Car.”
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.
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman consider the role of pessimism in our approach to contemporary politics.