Culvert
You were still asleep when the first shingles began to fly from our roof, barely conscious when we heard the old gazebo let go of the wooden joists and lay down lazily in the rising water with a sigh; but when ...
Two Stories by Seth Brady Tucker
Fiction, LAR Online
Translation by Melanie Moore
1.
Child number one: cute and ginger, a quarter of her face behind thick-lensed glasses, plait all awry and undone.
Six-year-old Klara is writing a letter to Grandfather Frost in ...
Grandmother Frost by Margarita Meklina
LAR Online, Translations
Swap
Say what you will about the car-choked
streets, how no one can walk on the sidewalks
because they are covered with cheap goods,
but all I see is how those fake Rolexes flashbulb
the afternoon into elsewhere. ...
Two Poems by Dawn Lonsinger
LAR Online, Poetry
Robin*: This is really not a subject that I feel like I can talk
to non-cancer friends about.
I lift the shoebox from the top of the closet. It feels empty. I check to make sure before I throw it away. Wrapped in ...
Mortality, with Friends by Fleda Brown
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review by Miranda Cooper
Perfect Tunes
Emily Gould
Avid Reader Press, April 2020.
$26.00; 288pp.
ISBN: 978-1-50119-749-9
The premise of Emily Gould’s sophomore novel, Perfect Tunes—a twentysomething ...
Review: Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould
Book Reviews, LAR Online
tracks of animals that went walking
...on the frozen river today
light enough to stand anywhere
...to walk one frozen block at a time
water banging along beneath
...ready to take whatever weighs
too ...
Walking the Ice by Carol Potter
LAR Online, Poetry
Loving even the old cobblestones in this ancient town, I am a tourist at the Tuesday morning market, and she is proud to tell me that this is the cheese preferred by all the French. She pulls a wire through it. A wire! I ...
The Beautiful Cheesemonger by John Poch
Fiction, LAR Online
Translated by Brady Ryan and Essayed Taha
an excerpt from Born: The Story of Naela Kamel, née Marie Elie Rosenthal
Tante Aziza and Nana came over to our house on Naim Street and said that Saad wanted to marry me. We ...
Inshallah We’ll Get That Permission by Nadia Kamel
LAR Online, Translations
I want to know what the kinglets keep
whispering I want to know what the roots
tap I want to know what happens
when I soak beans in darkness and simmer them
hours barely hot enough for bubbles to sweat
I want to ...
Pork and Beans by Michael Rogner
LAR Online, Poetry