We had arrived with vague ideas of city life: a sea of unfamiliar faces, winding avenues, the public gardens. Now, we shuffle around the dorm with the other girls from the suburbs. We feel more comfortable in slippers ...
Freshgirls by Rosetta Young
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
an excerpt from Yan An’s latest book A Naturalist’s Manor published by China Youth Publishing Group
Writing Lyrics for a Rocker at a Subway Passage
This spring ...
Three Poems by Yan An
LAR Online, Translations
..........I took you nowhere,
still shellshocked from the carpet bombing
..........at the end of first love,
still in awe of how quick
the turn from roses to reproach,
..........the hollowing out.
For third ...
Second Love by Ross White
LAR Online, Poetry
When Portrait of a Lady on Fire hit Hulu about month into the quarantine, lesbians across the country rejoiced. Due to its limited availability prior to this particular streaming service, many of us hadn’t seen it yet. ...
Portrait of a Lady in Quarantine by Margaret Speer
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Sonya Lara
How to Pronounce Knife
Short stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Little, Brown and Company, April 2020.
$26.00; 192pp.
ISBN: 978-0-316-42213-0
How to Pronounce Knife by ...
Review: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Short Fiction.
Final Judge: Doug Lawson
One morning I awoke as a woman. I knew I was a woman because I had seen women before. It was cold ...
Husbandry by LJ Pemberton
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
My Poems Keep Ending in Stars
Which means I can’t stop thinking
about the dying
passage of time. Which means I experience
flashing sensations, as from a blow
to the head. Sudden white spot
on the ...
Two Poems by Anne Barngrover
LAR Online, Poetry
The day I found Lily, I woke early. I wandered through my apartment, counting the steps from one side of the living room to the other. It was clean except for the tumbleweeds of cat hair and dust underneath the couch, ...
What It Looks Like in the Light by Anna Megdell
Fiction, LAR Online
a chapter self-translated from her novel "Tilda’s Secret Book” (Tildas hemmelige bog), published by Hovedland in 2018
Sarajevo, 1994
The candles cast a gloomy glow on our faces. We were sitting with our heads ...
Neighbours by Narcisa Vucina
LAR Online, Translations
