When they told me my grandfather had ditched the States to be a mayor of a village in Mexico, I knew I had to go.
Mijo, they said, don't. Por favor. There is no longer a six-degree separation between the violence and ...
The Mayor of Villa de Los Robles Has a Good Poker Face by Rocio Anica
Fiction, LAR Online
Ultraviolet --for an Anikó Herbert collagethe castle you watched night after nightis nowhere to be found in the morning as the sun setsa window bursts into bloomthat one is yoursthe ...
Three Poems by Réka Ágnes Tóth Translated by Elizabeth Lukács Chesla
LAR Online, Translations
When everything ends start walking east until you hit the slabs. See salvation painted on a mountain warning you to keep off the boat rusting alone in the dunes. ...
Slab City by Laura Ribitzky
LAR Online, Poetry
Start with the cars parked deepest in shadow.
You tell him to keep the can low so it doesn’t bang his knees. Don’t drag it. Don’t swing it. If somebody looks out, you’re helping. He nods like that settles it.
The ...
Reserve by Brandon McNeice
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
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
The Monroe Girls by Antoine Volodine
Translated by Alyson Waters
Review by Helen Han Wei Luo
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Publication date: March 17th, 2026
ISBN: 9781962770552
Pages: 245
Our Silly, Singular, ...
The Monroe Girls by Antoine Volodine Translated by Alyson Waters review by Helen Han Wei Luo
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The newlyweds had a rough summer, moneywise. Vanessa was laid off from her art therapist’s job at the women’s prison, and her husband’s draftsman’s hours were scaled back at the engineering firm. But they were ...
Vanessa by Janis Hubschman
Fiction, LAR Online
MinotaurLike a brave Theseus, before he would head into the labyrinth of underground garages for another night shift, he would linger to bid farewell to his wife— the one who, from Ariadne, dwindled through years into ...
Two poems written and translated by Jovana Simic Roussou
LAR Online, Translations
May 2, 2026, Los AngelesWhen my grandmother died in Iran years ago, I found out about it from an Instagram post. My cousin Salar's wife, who I've never met, had posted a black screen with white text in Farsi; I had to ...
Sixty Four Days by Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
LAR Online, Poetry
