LARB Radio Hour
Hosted by Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman and Kate Wolf · Los Angeles Review of Books
4.9from 192 ratings
- 562
- Episodes
- 126
- Transcribed
- 192
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About LARB Radio Hour
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.
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Review of Books
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Apr 2016
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
126 of 562 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trauma!
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Samuel Stein's "A Right to Housing?"
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein's "End Times Fascism"
Inside a recent episode
Trauma!
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that's the Oprah thing too, is that like, if there's a story of trauma and recovery, we can have a hope maybe that like bigger things get fixed. I think the problem is that like, economic redistribution might be, from a Marxist perspective, one way to actually fix structural problems. Yeah, that's boring, you know, like that or that feels cold because it's like it's not emotional. I think her point is that it's like when we go into the emotional, when we go into the personal, we might think and or feel like we're doing something. But maybe we're not actually or we're entertaining ourselves or consuming things and generating feeling, but not not granular action. […]
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- Samuel Stein
- Astra Taylor
- Naomi Klein
- Izabella Scott
- Marlon James
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 2,203,733
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 138 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 54 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts LARB Radio Hour?
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman and Kate Wolf host the show. Published by Los Angeles Review of Books.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does LARB Radio Hour take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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