Laurie Winer is a Los Angeles Review of Books founding editor.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
What Happened Here in Munich: An Interview with Mirjam Zadoff
Laurie Winer talks with Mirjam Zadoff, director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism....
20th-Century Classics for 21st-Century Audiences: An Interview with Bartlett Sher
Laurie Winer talks to Tony-nominated theater director Bartlett Sher, whose "To Kill a Mockingbird" is currently playing on Broadway....
The Michael Jackson Songbook
After "Leaving Neverland," what can Michael Jackson's lyrics tell us?...
Letter from New York: The Dope on How We Cope, or, The Theater Cure
Laurie Winer reviews several plays currently on Broadway, including "Hadestown," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "My Fair Lady."...
Radio Hour: Despina Stratigakos's "Hitler at Home" & Nicholson Baker on Nabokov's "Speak, Memory"
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK Despina Stratigakos, author of Hitler at Home, joins Laurie and co-host ...
Radio Hour: Tracy Tynan's "Wear and Tear", plus D.W. Winnicott
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK Celebrated costume designer and author, Tracy Tynan, joins Tom and Laurie to talk about ...
Radio Hour: Ron Arias "The Wetback and Other Stories" plus Monica Coleman's "Bipolar Faith"
A conversation with Ron Arias about his new collection 'The Wetback'...
Radio Hour: Laura Albert on the Documentary "Author: The JT Leroy Story"
Subscribe on iTunes or Listen to KPFK Was the author known as JT Leroy the greatest literary hoax of the 21st ...
Radio Hour: Evan Kindley and Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn
LARB's Senior Editors Janice Littlejohn and Evan Kindley join Tom and Laurie for a pair of wide ranging conversations. First, Janice ...
Radio Hour: Lauren Weedman's 'Miss Fortune' & David Ulin on Donald Trump
Actor and writer Lauren Weedman talks about her collection of funny, personal essays 'Miss Fortune'...
Two Very American Tragedies
Watching ESPN’s "OJ: Made In America," I thought of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy."...
Radio Hour: Father’s Day, The Tony’s, and Drinking Mare's Milk
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK This week, Seth and Laurie discuss the Tony Awards. Novelist Julia Claiborne Johnson recommends ...
The Ecstatic Experience: “Hamilton,” “Hair,” and “Oklahoma!”
Miranda makes Hamilton’s story the stories of the young in the audience, the ones who feel that the future of the country is in their hands....
Radio Hour: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's 'The Nest' plus John Romano on George Eliot
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK This week, our hosts talk with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney about her bestselling novel The ...
An Interview with Ryan Gattis, author of “All Involved”
Today marks the 24th anniversary of the Rodney King riots, a wound still healing in the collective psyche of Los Angeles ...
How to Write a Musical
When you’re making a work of art, it feels like it will kill you. It won’t kill you. But you feel like it will....
The Marriage Plot: Three Versions of “Wolf Hall”
The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn has been told and retold from hundreds of angles. So why did Hilary Mantel’s version catch fire?...
Life Is Easier than We Make It
"The Slap" is about people who are so distracted they have very little sense of how to count their blessings....
An Ongoing Autobiography of a Slightly Younger Self
Laurie Winer speaks with 'Girls' creator Lena Dunham...
The Love Letters of Heinrich Himmler
"The Decent One" heralds a new kind of Holocaust documentary, one made by a documentarian two generations removed from the original horror, one that dares to look at a perpetrator with the assumption that he is not an animal or a monster but a human being....
[VIDEO] Chip Kidd at the 2014 LA Times Book Fest
Renowned book cover designer Chip Kidd speaks with LA Review of Books editor Laurie Winer at the 2014 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books....
The Only People Here: Lorrie Moore’s Latest
Lorrie Moore's Bark, says Laurie Winer, gives "a shimmering sense of life passing in all of its aching beauty."...
Pride and Paragon: Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Laurie Winer reviews the Audible.com version of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."...
Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
FOR A LONG TIME I refused the temptation of the audiobook, believing that any sentence by Austen, Proust or Flaubert must ...
After "Breaking Bad": What Now?
Breaking Bad sparked a national dialogue with astonishing range and depth....
“The Pie Hole Is Mine”: Mary Roach’s “Gulp”
Triptych image: Gail Wight, “Stomach,” 2009. ONE CAN EASILY COLLATE a list of fun facts from Mary Roach’s latest book ...
Oscar and “Les Miz”
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical...
Choosing Not to Be: On David Foster Wallace
On 'The Bad Thing,' depression, and suicide...
The Mormon Candidate
Mitt Romney has described his faith as “the single most important influence in his life.” He did not go into details....
Taste is the Great Divider: On Pauline Kael
She had the devotion to an ideal shared by geniuses and sociopaths....
Zell to L.A. Times: Drop Dead
The book is a reminder that whenever you think things can’t get worse, they can. They can get much, much worse....
Magicland
I’m not equating him with Hitler, mind you, or Joe Smith or Jim Jones. I’m just trying to understand my own compulsion....
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