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  • Fady Joudah's "Exhibit G"

    October 9, 2026 · 53 min

    Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Palestinian American poet, translator and physician Fady Joudah to discuss his latest book, Exhibit G. The collection, a nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry, brings together poetry…

  • Trauma!

    October 2, 2026 · 48 min

    In this special chat episode, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman, and Kate Wolf use Catherine Liu's new book Traumatized to dive into the political uses and pitfalls of trauma. Liu argues that the elite professional class has fully absorbed the…

  • Samuel Stein's "A Right to Housing?"

    September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    The writer and housing policy advocate Samuel Stein joins Kate Wolf to speak about his new book,  A Right to Housing? It lays out how housing could indeed become a human right, accessible to all, through things like the decommodification…

  • Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein's "End Times Fascism"

    September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein about their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. A remarkably up to date analysis of our present moment of "messianic" wars in the Middle East and…

  • Izabella Scott's "The Bed Trick"

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by writer Izabella Scott. Scott is the author of the new book The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, Granta, London Review of Books, and on BBC Radio…

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  • Marlon James' "The Disappearers"

    September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    Eric Newman speaks with Marlon James about his latest novel, The Disappearers. Returning to Jamaica as an historical setting for the first time since his Booker-prize winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, James's latest tells a…

  • Susan Stryker's "Changing Gender"

    August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with Susan Stryker about her new book Changing Gender. Part cultural history, part grammar lesson, and part memoir, Changing Gender confronts not only the long historical slipperiness of gender and…

  • Chang-Rae Lee's "A Tender Age"

    August 21, 2026 · 54 min

    Eric Newman speaks with Chang-Rae Lee about his latest novel, A Tender Age, a coming-of-age novel centered on Jeon-Gi, the troubled son of hardworking Korean immigrants, who must navigate the meaning of masculinity, desire, and identity as…

  • Claudia Rankine's "Triage"

    August 14, 2026 · 58 min

    Claudia Rankine joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about her new book, Triage. It follows the lifelong friendship between its narrator and someone she refers to as the "theorist." The two meet in college and begin to play a game…

  • Eleni Sikelianos' "Memory Rehearsal"

    August 7, 2026 · 55 min

    The writer and poet Eleni Sikelianos joins Kate Wolf to discuss Memory Rehearsal, a hybrid-memoir that tracks the history of her great-grandparents, the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos and the American actress, writer, and artist Eva Palmer…

  • Erin Maglaque's "Presence"

    July 31, 2026 · 48 min

    Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak to historian Erin Maglaque about Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body, which interrogates contemporary notions of how women's bodies work. The book is both a personal account as well as an…

  • Kim Phillips-Fein on the Anti-Egalitarian Strain in American Culture and Politics

    July 24, 2026 · 44 min

    Host Eric Newman and LARB Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher speak with Columbia history professor Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in…

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The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings and discussions about all things literary. Hosted by LARB Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman.