A Femicide in Saudi Arabia
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s recent film explores the new liberties available to women in her home country.
Radha VatsalJul 13
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Remain in Zero / Same Day
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Empire of Signs
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Alex McPhee-BrowneJul 12
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A Brief History of Flow
What the internet learned from television.
Max L. FeldmanJul 11
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John Waters Is ‘Officially Good’
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Conor WilliamsJul 11
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’Pemi Aguda's 'One Leg on Earth'
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All Humanity Now Stands on the Edge of the Abyss
Vasily Grossman’s fearless and compelling war journalism demonstrates his courage and integrity as a writer and a man.
Eric VanderwallJul 10
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A Better World Is Not Possible
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
Emmett RensinJun 3
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Fakes of the Future
Literary credibility in the age of AI.
Krzysztof PelcJun 10
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The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard
An incisive and moving new critical biography of one of the nuclear age’s greatest visionaries.
Steven ShaviroJul 9
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A Room Inside Another Room
Alexis Almeida discusses her debut poetry collection ‘Caetano,’ a meditation on family, memory, and language.
Mónica de la TorreJul 9
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Organizing Pessimism
André Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism.
Abigail SusikJul 8
The Beginning of the Story
Is Rachel Aviv extroverted?
Sam AxelrodJul 7
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AI’s Blank Space
Exploring how AI’s prediction paradigm becomes embedded in the social infrastructure of everyday life.
Mona SloaneJun 18
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Cape Neurotic
Remembering the friendship and legacy of Irish writer Dermot Healy.
Molly McCloskeyJun 28
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The University as Giant App
Theo Baker’s book about Stanford offers a shockingly frank look at a campus that is as tightly governed as a Siberian labor camp—one perhaps designed by Sergey Brin.
Arjun AppaduraiJun 20
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Oh No Babe, We Gotta Go
One poet’s journal entries during the 2025 L.A. fires.
Kate DurbinJun 27

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Sinking City
Dorothy Tse’s new novel is a dystopian parable of Hong Kong subsiding out of memory.
Teresa XieJul 7
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time
A new movie about AI judges serves to expose how film noir was always about a world of artificial intelligence.
Travis AlexanderJul 6
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The Novel Is a Universal Passport
Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud discusses the position of the writer in postcolonial Algeria and what it means to receive global acclaim while being criminalized at home.
Amany AlsiefyJul 6
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Consequences Accrue Downstream
The ongoing fight to restore the Colorado River Delta.
Ash SandersJul 5
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The Declaration Alone Can’t Save Us
Danielle Allen’s rereleased reading of our founding document is surprisingly, and often maddeningly, ahistorical.
Jeffrey C. IsaacJul 4
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Petromodernity and the New Normal
The wild fire that unites Iran and Southern California.
Ciruce Movahedi-LankaraniJun 17
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Toys Without Frontiers
Despite Western media’s dismissal of them as mere propaganda, the Iranian LEGO videos have a long and complex genealogy.
Hamid DabashiJun 14
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Reclaiming the Small Circles of Liberty
How Hungary rid itself of Viktor Orbán.
Balázs TrencsényiMay 10
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The Shattered Mirrors of Golestan Palace
The destruction of Iranian cultural heritage sites, and the cultural histories buried in the rubble.
Hamid DabashiMay 1
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A Queer Icon for the Authoritarian Ages
Vernon Lee’s ghost stories explore what it takes to resist male gaslighting and what it means to believe women.
Diana BellonbyJun 26
Red-Pilling Speculation
From Ayn Rand to QAnon, a new anthology explores how reactionary world-building becomes reactionary world-making.
John RiederJun 29
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The Declaration Alone Can’t Save Us
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Fame! A Misunderstanding
Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective.
Matthew LambMay 6
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Carlos Barragán's 'The Yahoo Boys'
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Barry Walters's 'Mighty Real'
Journalist and music critic Barry Walters joins the podcast to talk about his new book 'Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000'
LARB Radio HourJun 12
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Kimberlé Crenshaw's 'Backtalker'
Kimberlé Crenshaw joins the podcast to talk about her new memoir, intellectual influences, and how we might face the racial, sexual, and gendered retrenchment in the present
LARB Radio HourJun 5
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Andrew Durbin's 'The Wonderful World that Almost Was'
Andrew Durbin joins the podcast to talk about his new biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, their romance and deep friendship, and their artistic formation
LARB Radio HourMay 29

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