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1 Jun 2023
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…
Top text: “LAR 24 is out now!” Middle Image: [cover of LA 24: yellow background with falling figures engaged in lockdown activities] Bottom text: “Cover Art by Van Chung”

ALT Top text: “LAR 24 is out now!” Middle Image: [cover of LA 24: yellow background with falling figures engaged in lockdown activities] Bottom text: “Cover Art by Van Chung”

Text: Our long-awaited 2020 print edition is out today! LAR 24 includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as our 2020 LAR Awards winners. We’re so excited to share this with you & to celebrate our contributors alongside you! The anthology is available to purchase on the LAR and Red Hen Press websites. We hope you enjoy LAR 24! The LAR Editorial Team

ALT Text: Our long-awaited 2020 print edition is out today! LAR 24 includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as our 2020 LAR Awards winners. We’re so excited to share this with you & to celebrate our contributors alongside you! The anthology is available to purchase on the LAR and Red Hen Press websites. We hope you enjoy LAR 24! The LAR Editorial Team
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“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-s… #LARintranslation
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“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/basemen…
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“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-arc… #LARfiction
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Mark Zvonkovic reviews David Loux’s “The Lost Seigneur” (pub. Wire Gate Press) on LAR today! Read Zvonkovic’s review here: losangelesreview.org/the-los… #LARreviews
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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-… #LARintranslation
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“He spat in our faces and spanked our bottoms and taught us that everything hums—planets, atoms, people; it is the oldest language in creation.” Clayton Paul’s “Supine Silver Baby” is up on LAR today—check it out here: losangelesreview.org/supine-… #LARflash
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“There is no joy in bombing. There is no joy in forced displacement—not for a human, not for a bird.” “The Twelve Days of War” by Altaf Saadi is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/the-twe… #LARnonfiction
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“The hole in the plot I put there on purpose. While still inside this book, I outnumber you. I have “you” surrounded.” Daniel Ruiz from “Rise and Fall [56]” losangelesreview.org/rise-an… #LARpoetry
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“Sunday bled into Monday, and then Tuesday, with no cataclysmic crisis, no process servers armed with divorce papers” Jacob Appel’s “Understudies in the Audience” is up on LAR today. Check it out here: losangelesreview.org/underst… #LARfiction
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“here you are under the black / shroud / through so much intolerance // My hand skips a page” Patrick Williamson’s translations of selected poems from Bios Diallo’s “La Saigne” are up on LAR. Read Williamson’s translations here: losangelesreview.org/five-po… #LARintranslation
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“they finally migrate to bed, it is late and springtime” Eli Dunham from “Rituals” losangelesreview.org/rituals… #LARflash
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“embedded within that neatly woven geometry lurk the deceptions you’ve held onto all your life, wearing thin, waiting to be tested” “Motherhood: A Resurrection” by Magda Stoenescu is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/motherh… #LARnonfiction
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Steve Heller reviews Pat Matsueda’s “Tailspin and Other Stories” (pub. El León Literary Arts and Mānoa Books) on LAR today! Read Heller’s review here: losangelesreview.org/tailspi… #LARreviews
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“my hands dispersed // in the memory of your face, − desire” Today, Susanna Lang’s translations of poems from Hélène Dorion’s “Coeurs, comme livres d'amour” (Hearts, Like Books of Love) are up on the site—read them here: losangelesreview.org/selecte… #LARintranslation
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“the trade agreement between flirtatious bullshit and muted televisions — that ripple effect of highlighted touchdowns and life stories shouted above the Dodger-fan din.” Two new poems by Michael Juliani are up on LAR today! Read them here: losangelesreview.org/two-poe… #LARpoetry
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“We would serve nothing but sweets until everyone’s gums ached. We would be feminine, free.” Annabelle Taghinia’s “Sugar” is up on LAR this morning. Read it here: losangelesreview.org/sugar-b… #LARfiction
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“The singing returns just at dusk, right into the hollow spot where stories no longer come. I try.” Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano’s translates his short story “LAS ALAS DETRÁS DE LA PARED” (“WINGS BEHIND THE WALLS”) on LAR today. Read it here: losangelesreview.org/wings-b… #LARintranslation
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“The older I get, the more I think certainty is just a response to fear.” Katy Storch from “Laundralaxy” losangelesreview.org/laundra… #LARflash
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“I had a mean boyfriend and bulimia; I wanted the glow of my dad’s love and recovery to fix me.” “Home Team” by Christie Tate is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/home-te… #LARnonfiction
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Kazuo Robinson reviews Michael Liska’s “Alice, or the Wild Girl” (pub. @InfoHeresy) today on LAR! Read Robinson’s review here: losangelesreview.org/alice-o… #LARreviews
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