By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham As I wrote back in December when we at the LARB China Blog were suggesting titles …
In Manchuria: A Q & A With Author Michael Meyer
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The LARB End-of-Year Editor Interviews: Dinah Lenney
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth interview of several we’ll be publishing this month, all with our section editors. They’re …
JSTOR Daily
JSTOR will be familiar to many readers as the repository of academic papers from which Aaron Swartz performed his fateful …
The LARB Intern Interview
Editor’s Note: Each year, the Los Angeles Review of Books hosts a summer internship program that features the LARB Publishing …
China’s Forgotten World War II: A Q&A with Rana Mitter
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham As my last China Blog column was on China’s forgotten World War I, I decided that …
Finding One’s Own Way Through the Woods: A Q & A with Short Story Writer Jack Livings
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom One of the best works of fiction I’ve read in recent months is The Dog: Stories by …
Tricks of Two Trades: A Q&A on Writing News Reports and Spy Novels with Night Heron Author Adam Brookes
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom I’ve known Adam Brookes since 1999, when we met in Beijing where he was covering China for …
The Opium War Comes to America (the Book, That is): A Q & A With Julia Lovell
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom This week’s China Blog interview is with Julia Lovell, a British specialist in Chinese studies who teaches …
Marginalia Radio Interviews Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter
https://soundcloud.com/marginalia/mrb-radio-13-randall-balmer This interview is from LARB Channel Marginalia, and is number 13 in their ongoing radio series. Art Remillard talks with …
A Tale of Two First Books: A Conversation with NPR’s Louisa Lim and The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos
In 2008, I wrote in the Guardian that there had recently been a “notable acceleration” in the frequency with which “illuminating …
