In the high school wrestling gym, it never seemed there were locker rooms. There were bodies. Boys with shirts off or shirts on. Boys with sweatpants and slippery torsos peeking out over elastic bands. Or with ...
The Wrestler by Elizabeth Wenger
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Revolution Will Not Keep You Sober: An Elegy for What We Sacrifice in Marriage, on the Clock, and for the Movement
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When the self-help gurus talked about the importance of establishing daily rituals, I wondered if ...
The Revolution Will Not Keep You Sober by Natasha Elle Thomas
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A physician reflects on the June 2025 war that has bubbled over into the current war in/against Iran.
On the first day Israel bombed Iran, I thought of my grandmother braiding her hair. As a child, I would perch at ...
The Twelve Days of War by Altaf Saadi
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Pregnancy No. 1
Gestation: 6 weeks, 1 day
I was a girl trying to be a woman in a man’s world, a fledgling New York City architect. With a work ethic inherited from immigrant parents who fled communist Poland with ...
Motherhood: A Resurrection by Magda Stoenescu
LAR Online, Nonfiction
On the way home from my Saturday Alanon meeting, I realize it’s my father’s sobriety anniversary. Fifty years. Should I call him? He’s on a ranch somewhere south of Austin with eight of his college buddies, and I ...
Home Team by Christie Tate
LAR Online, Nonfiction
In order to get ready to sleep, I used to have to cross my pinky toe over my other toe, on each side, rubbing my foot against the shin of the other leg. This action told my body I was folded up and ready for sleep, as ...
Accident Prone by Alison Powell
LAR Online, Nonfiction
My weary body is cradled in old cotton sheets in a home that rests on Californian land, where my maternal grandparents settled because, to them, New York was inhospitable in climate and temperament. Long ago, my mother ...
The Legends of Los Angeles by Taylor Harrison
LAR Online, Nonfiction
This morning I was a bird. My sparrow whined for me like I was her mama. House sparrows are cavity nesters, and this one is no exception. She snuggled in my palm and fell back asleep. We are one and the same, this bird ...
Today I Was A Bird by Aimee Seiff Christian
LAR Online, Nonfiction
My grandmother’s favorite food is tortilla soup, but I’ve learned not to order it for her. My family has searched far and wide, from fine-dining restaurants, Americanized “Mexican” restaurant chains, to the ...
La Marcha Adelante Es También La Marcha Fuera by Jacob Tan
LAR Online, Nonfiction
