Los Angeles Review

LAR 24 is out today!✨ Our newest anthology includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as 2020 LAR Awards winners. We’re so excited to finally share this with you! Get your copy of LAR 24 here: losangelesreview.org/buy-lar/

“He looks like a sea-steeled sailor or maybe a wizard. But cute. Patrons tuck dollars into my hair as I loop around the edges of the stage” Seth Wade from “Karl Marx Hates My Drag Show" losangelesreview.org/karl-marx-hate… #LARflash

“I fade into the background except as feeder, toy provider, aviary cleaner and part-time bird. One of the pack, where I belong.” “Today I Was A Bird” by Aimee Seiff Christian is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/today-i-was-a-… #LARnonfiction

“Pay us back a little at a time. A forgotten twenty in a jacket pocket. Some infrared images of deep-field galaxies and dying stars.” Celisa Steele from “I Feel I Owe You All An Apology” losangelesreview.org/i-feel-i-owe-y… #LARpoetry

“The lid of each safe deposit box opens with a click, and now I know there is nothing whatsoever that cannot be exposed and held up to the light.” Cary Holladay from “The People Here” losangelesreview.org/the-people-her… #LARfiction

Christopher Blackman reviews Andrew Grace’s “A Brief History of the Midwest” on LAR today. Check out the review here: losangelesreview.org/a-brief-histor… #LARreviews

“they left the doors open / the cracks in the exiled windows / took the shape of the bodies / they claimed they couldn't take with them” Allison deFreese’s translation of poems by Janil Uc Tuc are now up on LAR: losangelesreview.org/two-poems-by-j… #LARintranslation

“she had tasted just the same as I had known her, always persimmon, a flash of hue and she was gone.” Lucas Liu from “Couple’s Disagreement" losangelesreview.org/couples-disagr… #LARflash

“I think my grandmother is much like that El Torito, bits of culture pasted together on the backdrop of a New American Life.” “La Marcha Adelante Es También La Marcha Fuera” by Jacob Tan is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/la-marcha-adel… #LARnonfiction

“the particular drunkenness / of seeing my reflection in a new place. I didn’t say / I love you like I’d planned.” Diannely Antigua from “LONG DISTANCE, UP CLOSE” losangelesreview.org/long-distance-… #LARpoetry

“Maybe they were turning into a group of people who liked drinking together as opposed to a poetry club. Maybe the world was falling apart, and they were the last to know.” Andrew Bertaina from “Rooming with God” losangelesreview.org/rooming-with-g… #LARfiction

Kelly Dasta reviews Andy Anderegg’s “Plum” (pub. @HubCityPress) on LAR today. Read Dasta’s full review here: losangelesreview.org/plum-by-andy-a… #LARreviews

“she becomes acquainted with abandonment. fleeting birdcalls at sunset. my mother” Allison deFreese’s translations of poems by Ileana Garma are now up on the site! Check them out here: losangelesreview.org/five-poems-by-… #LARintranslation

“our father staggering bad drunk and stupid across the lawn. Our father shoulders through the screen door.” Patrick Strickland from “Dump Truck, Baby Brother” losangelesreview.org/dump-truck-bab… #LARflash

“I hid behind white tees and faded denim, the cloth equivalents of polite small-talk made to avoid incidental confessions.” “Yellow” by Anemone Beaulier is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/yellow-by-anem… #LARnonfiction

“I look at the sea Holding my son’s hand I have built a house I see A tsunami” Yana Kane’s translations of poems by Alena Maksakova are now up on the site! Check them out here: losangelesreview.org/three-poems-by… #LARintranslation

“home is a straight and well-maintained road, drowned trees, / infinite crenellations into which I notch arrow after arrow” Kimberly Andrews from “Brief Encounters with Famous Men” losangelesreview.org/brief-encounte… #LARpoetry

“He could not surgically implant consequences to their desires, and coming up inches short on a masterpiece meant it wasn’t worth trying at all.” Kumari Devarajan from “Rapidly Evolving Creatures” losangelesreview.org/rapidly-evolvi… #LARfiction

“not now and not like this from her current body dislocated by sorrows” Yana Ellis’ translation of Todora Radeva’s “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED” now up on the site! Check it out here: losangelesreview.org/short-story-by… #LARintranslation

“The horizon is fading from blue to orange. His dad called it “medicine.” Casey imagines veering toward the surf” Daniel Rousseau from “Erosion Control” losangelesreview.org/erosion-contro… #LARflash

“my empty uterus ached. Waterworks were always one mother-adjacent reference or glimpse of chubby infant thighs away.” “My Supporting Role as a Childless Mother of Two” by Chelsey Drysdale is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/my-supporting-… #LARnonfiction