My father once found a great blue heron dead at the frog pond. He drove an old Volvo station wagon. If my mother ever borrowed the car, she would come back and complain that it was like driving a barge. I’ve realized ...
Animal Planet by Garth Robinson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
To feel the joy of kissing your child on the cheek at night is to sanction, even to praise, the riot of cells rotting out the gray-faced boy outside the cancer garden.
--Christian Wiman
This riot of cells is the ...
Deep Remission by Gaetan Sgro
LAR Online, Nonfiction
We remind each other to keep quiet. In just a week, we have gotten good at creeping, at bulging our eyes and flicking up one stern finger. My grandfather is resting in the back room, and these old floorboards protest the ...
Haunted House by Haily Fukuda
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Before I laugh at the TikToks that make empires look ridiculous, I wake up to the messages that remind me how dangerous it is to live in their shadow. Most mornings, before my alarm even goes off, I wake to the sound ...
Mocking Empire from Minnesota: On Somali TikTok, Belonging, and the Parody of Power by Mohamoud and Haque
LAR Online, Nonfiction
“I can’t find your left ovary.”
In a very compromising position, I asked the ultrasound tech what she meant. Before responding, she requested I push down with my left hand low on my belly, where I knew my left ...
Elusive Ovary by Jenn Director Knudsen
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I can be many people: partner, friend, child, sibling. But I can’t really be a woman, I tell myself. Not like I was.
The empty toilet has also told me this, time and time again. Still I sit, cramped in the ...
Between the Legs by Madison Chapman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
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
