Kate Wolf is an editor at large for the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as a host and producer of its podcast, The LARB Radio Hour. Her short fiction, criticism, interviews, and essays have appeared in exhibition catalogues and publications including Bidoun, Bookforum, Art in America, The Nation, East of Borneo, Public Fiction, X-TRA, Night Papers — an artists’ newspaper she co-founded and edited with the Night Gallery in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2016 — and on KCRW and McSweeney’s program, The Organist.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“We Must Write Well”: On Cecilia Pavón’s “Little Joy”
Kate Wolf sorts through “Little Joy: Selected Stories” by Argentine author Cecilia Pavón, translated by Jacob Steinberg....
A Fundamentally Absurd Question: Talking with “Motherhood” Author Sheila Heti
Kate Wolf interviews “Motherhood” author Sheila Heti....
A Life in One Day
Kate Wolf on Christa Wolf's "One Day a Year: 2001-2011."...
Streetwalker
Kate Wolf visits Lauren Elkin's "Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London."...
Homesick: On Larry Sultan at LACMA
"In the photography of Larry Sultan, it’s the everyday, the ordinary, and the vernacular that prevail."...
A Unified Vision
In his new book of photographs, Stephen Shore explores daily life in Israel and the West Bank — life aside from the conflict. But even life aside from the conflict must acknowledge the conflict....
The Ballad Continues: On Nan Goldin
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'...
The Charismatic Voice
I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED to the writing of Dennis Cooper about fifteen years ago, when I found his books in the “...
Patience and Virtue: An Interview with Lydia Davis
I like the book to exist in a sort of middle space, kind of floating....
