Clark Creek
You try to keep your kids safe. You try to keep them from the things that scared you most as a child, even if those things were only imaginary. I don’t remember who gave me the book as a girl, but I ...
Three Stories on Monsters, on Grieving in the Gulf South by Adam Gnuse
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Rhonda Lancaster
Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
by Jack Halberstam
University of California Press, January 2018.
$18.95; 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780520292697
Trans*: A ...
Book Review: Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability by Jack Halberstam
Book Reviews, LAR Online
THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA
Walked up to me all the way
from Brazil to serenade my childhood,
all day it was João Gilberto and bossa nova,
the samba sang only to me, no one else.
Yet, a voice like my mother’s began to ...
Two Poems by Elizabeth Powell
LAR Online, Poetry
Smoldering Lascar turned violet against a desert sky lit pink by the setting sun. As evening slid over the Andean foothills and across the desert floor, Tomás sat on an ancient stone wall, smoothing dollar bills ...
Smoldering Lascar by Kevin Galvin
Fiction, LAR Online
For the second installment of the Vilnius series, I spoke with Birutė Jonuškaitė, chairperson at the Lithuanian Writers' Union. A writer and student during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Birutė was able to provide ...
Vilnius Interviews Part Two: Birutė Jonuškaitė
Interviews, LAR Online
Ruth
1935—Amelia Earhart was the first
to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
The Dust Bowl rolled out record heat.
Where at 16 could you have flown or blown?
Surely not far from the ...
Two Poems by Michael Montlack
LAR Online, Poetry
Grace laid out the ultrasounds of the miscarriage over her legs. Three stills, captured at intervals, crooked on their tulip bedspread. The TV tuned to whatever.
“See?” Grace said to Chuck.
Their daughter ...
The Last Remembered Intersection by Robert Glick
Fiction, LAR Online
This month, I found myself in Vilnius, Lithuania, a city so proud of its literary history, it has a whole street dedicated to it. I took a snowy stroll down Literatu Street where artworks are mounted on the walls to ...
Vilnius Interviews Part One: Marius Burokas
Interviews, LAR Online
“But I still have to face the hours, don’t I?
I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours
after that...”
–Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Hours in which the lace falls away
to reveal an ordinary ...
Domesticity by Lorcán Black
LAR Online, Poetry