For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle consider the new occupant of the Iron Throne and what got them there and ask, "But why, though?"

Naomi Hirahara talks to writer Cara Black about her Aimée Leduc series.

Colin Marshall looks at the aesthetics, both perceived and real, of Seoul and Los Angeles.

In Superintelligence, a state-of-the-art book on the dangers of machine intelligence, Nick Bostrom reminds us that horses “became obsolete” roughly one hundred years ago. Horses are, of course, not…

“Call Me By Your Name” name: four letters.

Jon K. Lauck looks to three recent books to highlight the recent wave of Midwestern literature.

“This photo is about a lot of things, but one of its defining features is its heterosexuality.”

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo sees herself in Nikki Darling’s “Fade Into You,” “an intimate view of a young, mixed-race Chicana living in the suburbs of L.A."

LARB presents an excerpt from “Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism” by Geert Lovink.

Tom Zoellner talks to British-Ghanaian writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes about his new novel, "Tail of the Blue Bird."

Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews Sophie Mackintosh's "The Water Cure," a debut novel that is "underscored by a relentless unease."

In "Balkon," Pamuk relies on photography to provide context as well as archival evidence. The photographs become part of the process of writing.

Robert Stubblefield finds that “Penelope Lemon: Game On!” is “a stellar addition to Inman Majors’s growing body of Southern comic novels.”

The Gypsy Girl, however, is nothing but eyes. No part of her makes her foreign or insists on her difference. She is whatever you would like her to be.

A harrowing book about refugees in Australian detention reveals much about the national character.

Kristen Warner is here to tell you that Game of Thrones is a soap opera, that you are soap opera fans, and that it's okay.

Naomi Elias talks with Brian Raftery about the cultural and technological anxieties in 1999 films and their enduring legacy two decades later.

Ryan Smernoff appreciates the many gems of Karen Russell’s “Orange World and Other Stories.”

Please join Los Angeles Review of Books and JAMES ELLROY the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The…

There’s a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans — Billy Joel The best thing Billy Joel has ever done is not make another al…

Laila Lalami talks about her most recent novel, "The Other Americans," a story about a Moroccan immigrant family in the Mojave Desert, and Jo Giese discusses the lessons we learn from our mothers.

Ruby Brunton reviews Kate Zambreno's latest book, "Appendix Project," released by Semiotext(e).

Andy Fitch discusses China's rise in Central Asia and the new Silk Road with Peter Frankopan, author of the recent "The New Silk Roads."

Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo digs up Mary Lambert’s original 1989 film adaptation of the Stephen King novel “Pet Sematary.”