The boys in the madrasa have never touched the hands of any woman, except for their mothers or sisters. They invite Alef to play a game with them, led by seventeen-year-old Qaf, who wants to be the first to touch ...
Heaven by Mir Arif
Fiction, LAR Online
Ma Yan was born in Chengdu, China in 1979. A prolific writer and active member of the Beijing literary scene, she self-published two poetry collections and helped organize literary events including the ...
Give by Ma Yan Translated by Winnie Zeng
LAR Online, Translations
It’s easier to pretend the wind is waves—
the new leaves of our pecan swelling
helpless but heavy are bladderwrack,
the porch lamp long unscrewed
from its base and dangling
by a single wire is ...
Lubbock Spring by Emma Aylor
LAR Online, Poetry
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I am peering into Pacific tide pools with my five-year-old son. Farther off shore, jet black cormorants dry their wings on rocks that sustain the constant orchestra of crashing waves. At our feet, lesser movements ...
Intermezzos Along the Road Home by Kathryn Petruccelli
LAR Online, Nonfiction
April at the Ruins by Lawrence Raab
Review by Marina Brown
Interview by Tiffany Troy
Publication Date: 4/1/2022
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Product Number: 9781946482655
ISBN: 978-1-946482-65-5
Pages: ...
A Review and an Interview of Lawrence Raab’s April at the Ruins
Book Reviews, Interviews, LAR Online
Markus Tamas Goldstein and his wife, Veronika Renat Goldstein (nee Kellner), had a very small farm with a very small dairy on the outskirts of a very small town in Hungary. Their operation was an outpost of the ...
State Fair by S.L. Wisenberg
Fiction, LAR Online
She opened the refrigerator and poured herself a glass of Horizon Organic that I bought at Whole Foods, milk from cows that eat only grass, sin hormonas. Then she went to her room and closed the door. I followed her, ...
Gringa by Julia Rendón Abrahamson Translated by Madeleine Arenivar
LAR Online, Translations
I decided to make my own masa
against the will of my mother
who spent much of her own life
taking corn to the mill
or grinding it on stone.
I decided to make my own ...
I Decided to Make My Own Masa by Ramon Jimenez
LAR Online, Poetry
Evan Williams is a Chicago-based writer working at the intersection of surrealism and gender performance. They are currently at work on a memoir about the masculine experience of anorexia. ...
A Spell by Evan Williams
LAR Online, Nonfiction
