May 22, 2022

Our culture is preoccupied with content to the almost total exclusion of form, and that’s bad....

March 28, 2022

An American author’s memoir of his six decades in Japan and his love affair with Tokyo....

November 21, 2021

A review of the literature on the hyperliterate jazz-rock ironists from 1970s L.A....

June 3, 2020

Colin Marshall explores the allure of polyglotism and the perils of linguistic hegemony through “Lingo” and “Babel” by Gaston Dorren....

January 14, 2020

Celebrating four decades of the “London Review of Books.”...

December 23, 2019

A new book about why free speech matters, even when it hurts....

August 2, 2018

Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books....

December 5, 2017

Colin Marshall contemplates David Sedaris’s experiences with language-learning....

October 5, 2017

Colin Marshall looks at books by Minae Mizumura and Aamir R. Mufti that lament the rise of global English....

April 10, 2017

Colin Marshall listens closely to “Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa” by Haruki Murakami....

December 31, 2016

Colin Marshall looks back on Roland Barthes’s look at Japan in “Empire of Signs.”...

September 12, 2016

Colin Marshall takes the measure of “Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style” by W. David Marx....

August 18, 2016

A review of Donald Richie’s classic book about Japan, “The Inland Sea”....

January 19, 2016

Ulin's new book "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles", deals directly with his nearly 25-year history in the city....

December 8, 2015

Brad Listi is the author of the novel "Attention. Deficit. Disorder." and host of the literary podcast Other People....

November 23, 2015

J. Ryan Stradal, fiction editor at "The Nervous Breakdown," talks about his debut novel "Kitchens of the Great Midwest."...

October 19, 2015

nbsp; Colin Marshall talks with Farley Elliott, senior editor at Eater Los Angeles and author of Los Angeles Street Food: A ...

October 5, 2015

nbsp; Colin Marshall talks with Amelia Gray, author of AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, Threats, and the new short story ...

September 28, 2015

nbsp; Colin Marshall talks with James Sie, voice actor, onscreen actor, and author of a new debut novel, Still Life Las ...

August 18, 2015

Colin Marshall talks to Jay Rubin, Takashima Research Professor of Japanese Humanities at Harvard University, translator of such books as Haruki ...

August 5, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with two of South Korea's best-known novelists, Bae Suah and Cheon Myeong-kwan....

July 8, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with Oliver Wang, a DJ, an associate professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach, and a former producer ...

June 12, 2015

Sam Sweet's latest project is 'All Night Menu', a series of five 64-page books on "the lost heroes and miniature histories of Los Angeles."...

May 28, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with Patricia Wakida, editor of Heyday Books' new LAtitudes: An Angeleno's Atlas, a collection of cartographically organized essays ...

May 19, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with Grace Jung, author of Deli Ideology, a new novel about a young woman's experience of the Great Recession in New York and Seoul....

May 8, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with reporter Sam Quinones, who covered gangs, drugs, and immigration at the Los Angeles Times for a decade. ...

April 6, 2015

Laila Lalami's latest novel tells the story of a 16th-century Spanish expedition in search of gold in modern-day Florida through the words of an unusually eloquent Moroccan slave....

March 10, 2015

Interview with Cynthia Kadohata, author of award-winning Y.A. novels Kira-Kira & The Thing About Luck, & adult novels like In the Heart of the Valley of Love....

March 3, 2015

Colin Marshall speaks with Alain Mabanckou, whose latest book Letter to Jimmy takes the form of a letter to his writing "mentor" James Baldwin....

February 9, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with Scott Timberg, author of Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class....

January 6, 2015

Colin Marshall talks with Tod Goldberg, author of such novels as Fake Liar Cheat and Living Dead Girl, several books based ...

November 19, 2014

Colin Marshall talks with Mona Simpson, author of the novels Anywhere But Here, Off Keck Road and My Hollywood. Her latest ...

November 4, 2014

Craig Davidson is the author of Cataract City, a novel about two friends in Niagara Falls. Previously he wrote Rust and Bone, and also writes under his pen names, Nick Cutter and Patrick Lestewka....

October 10, 2014

Interview with Jim Ruland, founder of the So-Cal reading series Vermin on the Mount, columnist at Razorcake, and author of the new novel Big Lonesome....

September 25, 2014

An interview with author Jonathan Lethem....

September 17, 2014

Interview with Sean Wilsey, author of the memoir Oh the Glory of It All. His latest volume of essays is called More Curious....

August 29, 2014

Edan Lepucki is a staff writer at The Millions and author of California, a domestic relationship novel set in mid-21st century post-apocalyptic Los Angeles....

August 12, 2014

Colin Marshall goes to Seoul, South Korea to talk with Krys Lee, author "Drifting House" and an upcoming novel on the lives of North Korean refugees....

July 10, 2014

Colin Marshall talks with Geoff Nicholson, author of nonfiction books like Day Trips to the Desert, The Lost Art of Walking, ...

July 1, 2014

Colin Marshall talks with Lisa See, author of novels at the intersection of Chinese history, American history, and women's history....

June 23, 2014

COLIN MARSHALL TALKS with Geoff Dyer, author of books all across the spectrum between fiction and non-fiction on such subjects as ...

June 12, 2014

COLIN MARSHALL talks to journalist and poet Dana Goodyear who, as a staff writer for the New Yorker, has profiled such ...

June 9, 2014

Michelle Huneven is the author of Off Course, a novel about a grad-student setting off into self-imposed dissertation-writing exile....

May 29, 2014

Colin Marshall talks with David Grand, author of Mount Terminus, a novel set at the intersection of the birth of cinema and modern Los Angeles....

May 20, 2014

Unearthing one of the most unjustly forgotten books on our city....

May 14, 2014

Colin talks with Leslie Jamison, author of the novel The Gin Closet and the new essay collection The Empathy Exams, which ...

April 28, 2014

Acclaimed cartoonist Mimi Ponds talks about her new graphic memoir Over Easy, a story about an art school dropout coming of age in 1970's California....

April 7, 2014

Colin Marshall interviews Sandra Tsing Loh, author of The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones. ¤...

March 29, 2014

Colin Marshall looks at Donald Richie’s life in Japan through his works....

March 17, 2014

Celebrating the second issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, featuring contributors Geoff Nicholson and Colin Dickey....

March 5, 2014

Colin Marshall sits down with Attica Locke, screenwriter and author of two novels: Black Water Rising (2009) and The Cutting Season (2012)....

February 17, 2014

Colin Marshall interviews African-American poet and novelist Percival Everett, on the reprinting of his 1999 novel, Glyph....

December 10, 2013

Colin Marshall interviews Pulitzer Prize winner A. Scott Berg about Wilson, his new biography of Woodrow Wilson. ¤...

November 20, 2013

Host Colin Marshall speaks to JERRY STAHL about his latest books, Bad Sex on Speed and Happy Mutant Baby Pills.  ¤...

November 5, 2013

Colin Marshall talks to Michael Krikorian about the gangs of Los Angeles his latest novel Southside...

October 28, 2013

Colin Marshall interview Keenan Norris about his debut novel "Brother and the Dancer"...

October 17, 2013

Celebrating the inaugural issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal. Featuring Maria Bustillos, Cord Jefferson, and Ander Monson.  The Journal is now ...

October 9, 2013

Colin Marshall chats with author NICK ANTOSCA about screenwriting, watching your significant other get hit on, insecurity, and his new short ...

September 30, 2013

Host Colin Marshal speaks to journalist and filmmaker LESLIE COCKBURN (American Casino, The Peacemaker) about her latest novel Baghdad Solitaire and ...

September 22, 2013

Host Colin Marshall talks to author GABE DURHAM about summer camp and his new book FUN CAMP.    ¤ ...

September 15, 2013

Host Colin Marshall discusses the life and career of Roman Polanski with authors JAMES GREENBERG, author of Roman Polanski: A Retrospective,  ...

September 3, 2013

Richard Rayner discusses Los Angeles with Colin Marshall...

August 20, 2013

Robert Polito, Tom Healy, Adam Fitzgerald...

August 10, 2013

Ken Baumann speaks to podcast host Colin Marshall about his latest novel, "Solip."...

July 22, 2013

Colin Marshall speaks with Josh Kun, professor in the USC Annenberg School and co-curator of the Central Library's "Songs in the ...

July 15, 2013

David Iserson works as a film and television writer and currently writes for Fox's New Girl. He has also written for ...

July 7, 2013

Loren Glass is the Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in ...

June 30, 2013

Tosh Berman is the founder of TamTam Books and the author of Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London.   Here, ...

June 20, 2013

Host Colin Marshall speaks with poet and translator David Shook about his latest collection, Our Obsidian Tongues, and his translation of ...

June 12, 2013

Jeff Weiss and Evan McGarvey speak with host Colin Marshall about their book 2pac vs. Biggie: An Illustrated History of Rap's ...

June 4, 2013

Marc Maron is a comedian, host of the WTF podcast, author of Attempting Normal, and star of IFC's new TV series ...

May 27, 2013

Steph Cha is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. She lives in her native city of Los Angeles, ...

May 19, 2013

Nathaniel Rich is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of the 2008 novel, The Mayor's Tongue and the ...

May 18, 2013

A primer on the South Korean novelist...

May 10, 2013

Anna Stothard is a British novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Here, she speaks with Colin Marshall about her latest novel, The Pink ...

May 1, 2013

Colin Dickey is the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, and Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from ...

April 18, 2013

Matthew Specktor is the  Senior Fiction Editor at Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of three ...

April 7, 2013

Jim Gavin is a Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor. Here, LARB podcast host Colin Marshall speaks with ...

March 23, 2013

Margot Lachlan White speaks to host Colin Marshall about Waking Up in Tehran: The Untold Story of Iran's Revolution, coming this ...

March 6, 2013

Gabriela Jauregui is the author of Controlled Decay (Akashic Books/Black Goat Press, 2008). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature ...

March 3, 2013

Richard Kramer began his career writing for The New Yorker. He has written and produced such television shows as thirtysomething, ...

February 13, 2013

Colin Marshall interviews Eric Lax about his latest book, written with Robert Peter Gale, M.D.,  Radiation: What It Is, What ...

January 18, 2013

Colin Marshall interviews Lani Hall in Santa Monica about her new book, Emotional Memoirs. "Artists are so insecure, and it doesn't ...

January 10, 2013

Colin Marshall has been producing a deep archive of podcasts for several years now, available on his Notebook on Cities and ...

December 12, 2012

This interview appeared on Colin Marshall's "Notebook on Cities and Culture"; Colin will be producing podcasts for LARB starting this month. ...