Some wise creature
once said that a child doubles her father’s vision,
so the snakeskin will be accounted for, filmy and useless,
and the sky will glow “like a sea built of fire,”
and the birds will never ...
Call It a Day by David Roderick
LAR Online, Poetry, Uncategorized
When the electrical pole fell in the alley, knocking out the power on our block, Tony and I knew there was nothing to do but sit on the porch and wait. I poured us each a little whiskey over ice and we sat in teal ...
In the Apocalypse by Liz Shulman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Rochelle Spencer
Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Future
curated by Natasha Marin
McSweeney’s, February 2020.
$14.00; 216pp.
ISBN: 978-1-94421-184-4
At around 3:15pm on a ...
Review: Black Imagination curated by Natasha Marin
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The Gold of Naples
Things kept reminding me of other things.
The old ladies in the street were my aunts.
A counterman at Caffè Mexico
was Totò in a soda fountain hat.
The rum babas were trumpet mutes.
My hanging ...
Three Poems by Erin O’Luanaigh
LAR Online, Poetry
We had arrived with vague ideas of city life: a sea of unfamiliar faces, winding avenues, the public gardens. Now, we shuffle around the dorm with the other girls from the suburbs. We feel more comfortable in slippers ...
Freshgirls by Rosetta Young
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
an excerpt from Yan An’s latest book A Naturalist’s Manor published by China Youth Publishing Group
Writing Lyrics for a Rocker at a Subway Passage
This spring ...
Three Poems by Yan An
LAR Online, Translations
..........I took you nowhere,
still shellshocked from the carpet bombing
..........at the end of first love,
still in awe of how quick
the turn from roses to reproach,
..........the hollowing out.
For third ...
Second Love by Ross White
LAR Online, Poetry
When Portrait of a Lady on Fire hit Hulu about month into the quarantine, lesbians across the country rejoiced. Due to its limited availability prior to this particular streaming service, many of us hadn’t seen it yet. ...
Portrait of a Lady in Quarantine by Margaret Speer
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Sonya Lara
How to Pronounce Knife
Short stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Little, Brown and Company, April 2020.
$26.00; 192pp.
ISBN: 978-0-316-42213-0
How to Pronounce Knife by ...
Review: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Book Reviews, LAR Online