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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:
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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”
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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“to accompany the ancientness
to unstop the faucet of a twilight,
so that by day spouts
all the water that passes at night.”
from Mario Domínguez Parra & Michael Lee Rattigan’s transl. of LII-LVI from Trilce by César Vallejo on LAR
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“Look at any branch in the family tree, and you’ll see a leaf in mourning.”
Rocio Anica from “The Mayor of Villa de Los Robles Has a Good Poker Face” is available to read on LAR today: losangelesreview.org/the-may…
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“Your mouth is an empty cave / that’s only good to come home to.”
Elizabeth Lukács Chesla’s translations of three poems by Réka Ágnes Tóth are now up on LAR! Read them here: losangelesreview.org/three-p…
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“the twin-engined plane
caught in a perpetual fall,
its nose dug into the dirt,
on a heading towards East Jesus”
“Slab City” by Laura Ribitzky is up on LAR now!
Read it here: losangelesreview.org/slab-ci…
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“The first pull gets nothing. The second gets the taste at once. Metal. Chemical. Bitter enough to make your jaw lock.”
Brandon McNeice from “Reserve”
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“I often think that I’d like to live to the ripe old age of—Oh, I don’t know—infinity? And so, the awareness of impermanence, of my inevitable separation, grows with each passing day.”
Read “Deep Remission” by Gaetan Sgro on LAR today!
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Helen Han Wei Luo reviews Antoine Volodine’s “The Monroe Girls” (transl. Alyson Waters, pub. Archepelago Books) on LAR today!
Read the full review here: losangelesreview.org/the-mon…
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“she was carrying a whopping mortgage on a house that had sprung more leaks than the Titanic. No way would she go down with the ship without first confronting the iceberg.”
Janis Hubschman from “Vanessa”
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“Empires have fallen,
lulled, suckled on the public teat,
rotted in foreign tongues”
“Minotaur” and "Penelope” translated by the author Jovana Simic Roussou are now up on LAR! Read them here: losangelesreview.org/two-poe…
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“they call ceasefires now and again, it's not over; The loathing of men feels bottomless”
“Sixty Four Days” by Shaya Tayefe Mohajer is up on LAR now! Check it out here: losangelesreview.org/sixty-f…
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“glittery silver like his sneakers, with rocket wings to send it sweeping over the sky”
Miriam Fried from “Dick Move”
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“the initial thought of it happening down the hall that makes me hesitate.
The dying happens differently than I imagined. Here, he is already living among ghosts.”
“Haunted House” by Haily Fukuda is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/haunted…
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“some pale spirit still negotiates its cups;
the leggings thinning to absence.”
“The Laundromat” by Jaia Bashir is up on LAR now! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/the-lau…
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“I tried to distinguish him from the echo of Esma`il’s screams.
I wanted his angels to come for me as they had for the prophets.”
Mohammad Saleh Sahragard from “The Incompletes” losangelesreview.org/the-inc…
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Myka Tucker-Abramson reviews Chris Kraus’ “The Four Spent the Day Together” (pub. @ScribnerBooks) on LAR today!
Read the review here: losangelesreview.org/the-fou…
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“without Pasternak, life’s not worth living. And without Masha, also”
Alex Cigale’s translation of Alex Galper’s short story “MY SISTER—LIFE” is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/short-s…
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“she was already out of the car, stumbling towards the fire, her mouth wide open”
Starr Jiang from “Vivian Wants to Eat the Sun”
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“not merely defending themselves; they are revealing the grotesque absurdity of the narratives used to keep them out”
Iman Mohamoud & Danielle Haque from “Mocking Empire from Minnesota: On Somali TikTok, Belonging, and the Parody of Power“
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“Let longing animate / Us let this be our great / Secret”
Delia Radu’s translation of “GLIDE MOON SIDEWAYS” by Mihai Eminescu is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/a-poem-…
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“- The Boys Ranch in Wilton
- Bonnie's Cancer
- That diner in Xenia
- When I bought drugs from your sister in Ligonier as her baby slept”
“Things I Never Wrote About” by Nicholas Rys is up on LAR now! Read it on the site: losangelesreview.org/things-…
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