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/

“Why would I deprive the chorus of wolf whistles, lonely and long as mourning?” Two new poems by Sarah Kaplan-Cunningham are up on LAR now! Check them out on the site: losangelesreview.org/two-poems-by-s… #LARpoetry

“it became an elastic bit of time he carried for years afterward, a place he could re-enter if he wanted: the bedroom, early evening, summer light” Kris Willcox from “Deathbed” losangelesreview.org/deathbed-by-kr… #LARflash

Margaret Anne Kean reviews Margot Kahn’s “The Unreliable Tree” (pub. Curbstone Books/@northwesternup) on LAR today! Read Kean’s review here: losangelesreview.org/the-unreliable… #LARreviews

“All of us are falling. This hand falls— And the other—as in everything,” Richard Becker’s translations of five poems by Rainer Marie Rilke are now up on LAR! Read them here: losangelesreview.org/five-poems-by-… #LARintranslation

“I glance at Avery. The brilliant light of the nebula is reflected in her eyes.” Elizabeth Rosen from “The Aggregate of Our Joy” losangelesreview.org/the-aggregate-… #LARfiction

“My friend says, “We are not born ashamed.” So I wonder, naturally, when do we become it?” “The Wrestler” by Elizabeth Wenger is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/the-wrestler-b… #LARnonfiction

“After the efflorescence of disease, some folks feel betrayed by the body. But during the good days, I’m transfigured by you still,” Two new poems by Kevin Clark are up on LAR now! Check them out on the site: losangelesreview.org/two-poems-by-k… #LARpoetry

“I can’t get away now on account of my work at Tessera Therapeutics, which is keeping me busy. I hope you don’t mind if I send my grandmother instead.” Tara Menon from “Vacation in Vermont” losangelesreview.org/vacation-in-ve… #LARflash

“The rooster hides his coverless eyes Beneath the tongue like chewing gum He buries the five fingers of the right hand Deep inside the chest” Read Quamrul Hassan’s translations of three poems by Afroja Shoma on the site now! losangelesreview.org/three-poems-by… #LARintranslation

My new poem in The Los Angeles Review (@LAReview ) today:

“each of us are responsible for miles of voices and burned down words / inside which were once our houses and rooms / and unmade beds” “The Face-to-Face Encounter” by Chelsea Dingman is up on LAR now! Check it out on the site: losangelesreview.org/the-face-to-fa… #LARpoetry

“In these two hours, I have already planned his funeral and celebrated his return, each a hundred times over. The cry is long, panicked, and pained” Hana Rehman from “The Howl” losangelesreview.org/the-howl-by-ha… #LARfiction

Deborah Bacharach reviews “tic tic tic” by Heidi Seaborn (pub. Cornerstone Press) on LAR today! Read Bacharach’s review here: losangelesreview.org/tic-tic-tic-by… #LARreviews

“the more time you spend with a memory, the more it curdles like film exposed to light. The pressure of wanting it whole only distorts the very thing you sought to preserve” Grace Tessier Culhane from “Smoke” losangelesreview.org/smoke-by-grace… #LARflash

“we had fully absorbed the capitalistic ethos of overwork, exhaustion, and disposability. The very ethos we convinced ourselves we were dismantling.” Read Natasha Elle Thomas’ “The Revolution Will Not Keep You Sober” on LAR today! losangelesreview.org/the-revolution… #LARnonfiction

“as we pull back the stick, we keep rotating our arms in order to resist gravity, challenge it, prove the Earth wrong” Michelle Kiefer’s translation of Emmanuelle Salasc’s short story, “Nightlight,” is up on LAR today. Read it here: losangelesreview.org/short-story-by… #LARintranslation

“there are robins and wool socks (و فوق المناشر توجد طيور أبو الحناء و جوارب صوفيه) / basking in the summer heat (يتشمسون في حرارة الصيف) / in a way that makes them beautiful. (بطريقة تجعلها جميلة.)” Mai Mageed & Ayat Hussein from “basements الاقبية” losangelesreview.org/basements-by-m…

“Naturally, the first users asked it for pornography, conspiracy, and prophecy. The second wave asked for philosophy. We belonged—or so we told ourselves—to the second wave.” Jade Bailey Brock from “The Archive of Ananke” losangelesreview.org/the-archive-of… #LARfiction

Mark Zvonkovic reviews David Loux’s “The Lost Seigneur” (pub. Wire Gate Press) on LAR today! Read Zvonkovic’s review here: losangelesreview.org/the-lost-seign… #LARreviews

Chona Mendoza’s translation of Grazia Deledda’s “A Game of Make-believe” is up on LAR today--read it here: losangelesreview.org/a-game-of-make… #LARintranslation