Desire & longing is the through line in a life.
Who was I reading Emerson’s essays in my twenties & then heading off hopeful to Hollywood from the Midwest to try & sell a television script that I wrote in ...
Ten Kisses by Arlene Tribbia
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Can You See Me?
An Essay on Disguise and Reinvention
Chameleons have always fascinated me—how they vanish into their surrounding, flickering between a catalogue of selves. They are one of nature’s most magical ...
Can You See Me? by Abbigail N. Rosewood
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Sentence by Mikhail Iossel
Review by John Mwazemba
Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-77390-174-9
Publication Date: August 1, 2025
Pages: 197 pages
Sentence by Mikhail Iossel: Existence, Nostalgia and ...
Sentence by Mikhail Iossel Review by John Mwazemba
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Jordan Road, Hong KongIn a room at a small hotel on Jordan Road,you press into me, face red and out of breath.I lie, tell you, you got it, you don’t needto fight so hard, you can slow down,you are liberated, you are ...
Two Poems by Hsu Pei-Fen Translated by Jonathan Pyner
LAR Online, Translations
It’s hard not to think, especially here, that the river must be burning.In the meantime some men & women are paid to count everything.Fire where the fire should be, in the place of the sun. It’s about ...
SITTING BEFORE J.M.W. TURNER’S BURNING OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN THE CLEVELAND ART MUSEUM by G.C. Waldrep
LAR Online, Poetry
“Mystery at the Bagni Piero Beach Club”
(from Vanity Fair, August 14, 2024)
The corpse washed up at the Bagni Rosina Beach Club in Forte dei Marmi aboard a pink air bed. It was a man, maybe seventy years old, face ...
A Short Story by Giacomo Papi Translated by Michela Martini & Elizabeth McKenzie
LAR Online, Translations
Handmade pottery? Wasn’t God the only real potter? Pinch of earth, wasn’t that how he made Man? And Woman? Creatures, his earth, his religion binding it all together?
Here, a lady potter, trying to copy him! She ...
Lady Potter by Rebecca Pyle
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The Pillows used to be a big part of my life. That sounds too small, even now, when I no longer listen to them, when the old MP3s sit buried in an external hard drive I haven’t touched in years. Back then—high school ...
Like a Love Song by E.P. Tuazon
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Soft As Bones: A Memoir by Chyana Marie Sage
Review by Jonathan Fletcher
Interview by Tiffany Troy
Publisher: House of Anansi Press, Inc.
Publication Date:
ISBN: 978-1487013028
Pages: 277
Reading Chyana Marie ...
Soft As Bones: A Memoir by Chyana Marie Sage Review by Jonathan Fletcher, Interview by Tiffany Troy
Book Reviews, LAR Online
