Melhores podcasts sobre La Review Of Books (2025)

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Haley Mlotek's "No Fault: A Memoir of Divorce and Romance" 49:22

3d ago49:22

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to writer Haley Mlotek about "No Fault: A Memoir of Divorce and Romance." The book blends the history of divorce law and custom in North America over the last century with cultural criticism on the way divorce has been portrayed in literature, film, and online. Mlotek also records her own experience of ending a marr…

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LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2025 Oscars Preview 46:05

11d ago46:05

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In this special episode, host Eric Newman joins LARB senior editor Paul Thompson and Film Comment co-editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a look at this year’s Oscar nominees ahead of this weekend’s award ceremony. Surveying this rather strange year in film, the gang discusses the gory camp of The Substance, the omnipresence of Wicked, the m…

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Hal Foster's "Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics" 48:55

18d ago48:55

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the art critic and historian Hal Foster to speak about his latest book, "Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics." A collection of essays that brings together over three decades of Foster’s work, the book exhibits a rigorous philosophical and political engagement with a celebrated group of critics a…

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Deborah Treisman's "A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker" 45:09

24d ago45:09

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor at The New Yorker and host of The New Yorker’s Fiction podcast. Deborah is the editor of a new anthology of short stories, "A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker, 1925-2025," which features some of the incredible writers that The New Yorker has published over the past 10…

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Colette Shade's "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything" 39:50

1M ago39:50

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Eric Newman speaks with Colette Shade about her book “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.” Revisiting the strange hallmarks of that era–remember inflatable furniture and phones without touch screens?–Colette’s essays explore the social and political antecedents that formed the fashion, culture, and style of the millennial turn. With a sharp eye t…

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Aria Aber’s “Good Girl” 41:53

1M ago41:53

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by writer and poet Aria Aber to discuss her first novel, Good Girl. Aber is the author of the poetry collection Hard Damage, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Good Girl follows 19-yea…

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Trump L’Oeil: Spectacle in the Age of Trump 56:09

1M ago56:09

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In this week’s episode, Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman are joined by LARB contributor Gideon Jacobs for a discussion about the power of images in the era of Trump. Recorded in the hours after Trump's inauguration, Gideon and the hosts talk about how Trump and his associates use images and spectacle, the flattening and coarsening of our po…

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The LA Fires 51:54

2M ago51:54

51:54

In this week’s episode, we are talking about the wildfires that have ravaged LA. Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak to author David L. Ulin about Los Angeles as a place forged in precarity and grit, as well as some of the local literature of disaster, and what it means to accept the city as somewhere catastrophe can strike in an instant. Next they sp…

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Writing Climate Futures 1:03:05

2M ago1:03:05

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On July 18th, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures," featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake.As our planet faces a climate crisis, questions about the role and efficacy of environmental writing assume greater urgency by the day. Throu…

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On Giving Up 50:50

2M ago50:50

50:50

In this encore special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman discuss the case for and against giving up—on life, vices, dreams, creative pursuits, jobs, relationships, exercise, and work. Their conversation is inspired by Adam Phillips’s recent book On Giving Up, in which the psychoanalyst observes that “we give things up when we …

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Ariana Reines' ''Wave of Blood'' 50:30

2M ago50:30

50:30

In our last episode of the year, Kate Wolf speaks with the poet, playwright, and performance artist Ariana Reines about her latest book, Wave of Blood. A hybrid text that includes poems, diary entries in verse, and various forms of public address, Wave of Blood spans the six month period between October 2023, after the outbreak of war in Gaza, and …

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BEST OF 2024 EPISODE 1:05:45

3M ago1:05:45

1:05:45

It’s time for our favorite episode of the year. Hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman discuss their favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, scandals and (new category!) memories of 2024. For a full list of picks, visit https://lareviewofbooks.org/podcasts/larb-radio-hour/Por LA Review of Books

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Kathryn Davis' "Versailles" 47:13

3M ago47:13

47:13

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by writer Kathryn Davis, the acclaimed author of many novels, including Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, The Thin Place, Versailles, Duplex, and Silk Road, and a memoir, Aurelia Aurélia. Davis discusses her novel Versailles, originally published in 2002, recently reissued by Graywo…

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Raoul Peck's "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" 44:56

3M ago44:56

44:56

Kate Wolf speaks to filmmaker Raoul Peck about his latest documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, out in theaters now. The film excavates the life and work of Ernest Cole, the South African photographer, using his own writing and a recently rediscovered archive of his photographs. Cole was one of the first people to capture the brutal realities o…

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Renee Gladman's Experiments in Form 46:26

3M ago46:26

46:26

Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman are joined by writer and artist Renee Gladman to discuss the re-release of “To After That (TOAF)” and her latest book, “My Lesbian Novel.” TOAF focuses on one of Gladman's abandoned manuscripts, working through its creation and revision in an attempt to parse what literary failure means. “My Lesbian Novel” completely re…

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Edwin Frank's "Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel" 52:11

4M ago52:11

52:11

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the editorial director of the New York Review of Books and the founder of the NYRB classic series, Edwin Frank, to discuss his first work of nonfiction, the book, Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel. Taking the novel as the preeminent art form of the last century, Frank’s book charts …

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Politics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Presidency 48:07

4M ago48:07

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In this special episode, Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman are joined by writer and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster to talk about the role of psychoanalysis in politics. Their discussion emerges from Webster's essay, “Freudulence,” published in the latest issue LARB Quarterly Journal, which reassesses a controversial book co-authored by Sigmu…

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Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise" 52:14

4M ago52:14

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Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by the Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist Mosab Abu Toha. He is the author of the award-winning collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, as well as the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. Toha recently published a series of essays about Gaz…

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Forrest Gander's "Mojave Ghost" 53:39

4M ago53:39

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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist, and translator Forrest Gander to discuss his new book, Mojave Ghost. A long poem situated along the 800-mile length of the San Andreas Fault, which runs from Northern California where Gander lives to his birthplace in the Southern California Desert, the work reflects bot…

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The Fight to Unionize Amazon 54:28

4M ago54:28

54:28

Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new documentary Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever Amazon union in the country, the ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation Chris Smalls, the president of ALU, joins as well. Chris began to …

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Simon Critchley's "Mysticism" 1:01:12

4M ago1:01:12

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with writer and scholar Simon Critchley about his new book, Mysticism. Defining mysticism not as a religion but as a “tendency, a distillation of existing devotional practice,” the book begins by considering some of the great mystics of the Christian tradition. These include Critchley's favorite mystic, Julian of No…

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" 1:06:40

5M ago1:06:40

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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. A deeply researched and impressionistic biography of one of the most iconic figures of 20th century Black, queer, and feminist thought, Survival Is A Promise is a love letter to Lorde, pushing past her broad circulation in social …

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Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies" 47:46

5M ago47:46

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Kate Wolf speaks to the author Deborah Levy about her new book, a collection of essays called The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies. The piece collected here cite Levy’s early influences from French writers like Colette, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras to JG Ballard and Anna Quinn. The collection also moves through snippets of Levy’s…

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Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement" 56:08

5M ago56:08

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In this special episode of the LARB Radio Hour and LARB Book Club, Medaya Ocher talks with Rumaan Alam about his new novel, Entitlement. We begin with the story of Brooke, a product of the upper middle class, who works for an aging billionaire looking for places to give away his fortune. Brooke comes to recognize all that she could do with a vast f…

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Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" 52:10

5M ago52:10

52:10

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to Emily Witt about her latest book, Health and Safety: A Breakdown. A personal history that reflects on this past turbulent decade, the book begins right before the election of Donald J. Trump, a time when Witt finds herself ever more drawn to Brooklyn’s underground techno music scene. Quitting Wellbutrin in 2012, s…

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Haley Mlotek's "No Fault: A Memoir of Divorce and Romance" 49:22

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LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2025 Oscars Preview 46:05

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Hal Foster's "Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics" 48:55

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Deborah Treisman's "A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker" 45:09

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Colette Shade's "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything" 39:50

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Aria Aber’s “Good Girl” 41:53

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Trump L’Oeil: Spectacle in the Age of Trump 56:09

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The LA Fires 51:54

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Writing Climate Futures 1:03:05

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On Giving Up 50:50

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Ariana Reines' ''Wave of Blood'' 50:30

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BEST OF 2024 EPISODE 1:05:45

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Kathryn Davis' "Versailles" 47:13

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Raoul Peck's "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" 44:56

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Renee Gladman's Experiments in Form 46:26

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Edwin Frank's "Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel" 52:11

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Politics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Presidency 48:07

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Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise" 52:14

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Forrest Gander's "Mojave Ghost" 53:39

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The Fight to Unionize Amazon 54:28

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Simon Critchley's "Mysticism" 1:01:12

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" 1:06:40

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Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies" 47:46

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Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement" 56:08

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Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" 52:10

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