The Los Angeles Review

My head had become a drummed-upon thing. A man in the road bends to it and prods a pain on top. I hear a noise from the man that in my better days I could have determined to be a worrisome noise, yet the man says, There ...

A CAULKING by Justin Noga

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

after Jamaica Kincaid Measure bleach into the washer as it fills, before you add the whites and never after; don’t dry anything with towels except more towels, and check the lint trap after every load; when you ...

Girl by Brenna Womer

LAR Online, Nonfiction

The Swailing by Patrick James Errington Review by Clelia Albano Interview by Tiffany Troy Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press Publication Date: March 15, 2023 ISBN: 978-0228016755 Pages: ...

The Swailing by Patrick James Errington Review by Clelia Albano and Interview by Tiffany Troy

Book Reviews, LAR Online

I take myself as a child to the movies, and when I fall for the illusion, as rain that falls into the streets on screen, I forget. After all, the score is huge, and the blacktop sizzles like a house on fire. A boy is ...

Book of Dolls 15 by Bruce Bond

LAR Online, Poetry

Let’s take a deep dive, she says to me. i don’t know into what. i know she owns a pool, but i know the pool is shallow. She takes me to her home, where her shallow pool is. We walk alongside the pool in her backyard ...

The School of How Can I Live by Jared Joseph

Fiction, LAR Online

Translator’s Note These poems are part of an ongoing project translating, adapting, and reacting to a single poem by the Roman poet Catullus, the 85th of his surviving work, often referred to as Catullus 85. ...

5 Translations of Catullus 85 by Matthew Nisinson

LAR Online, Translations

In the span of three weeks, my daughter transformed into a pear, an avocado, and an onion. No, this wasn’t an outpouring of toddler imagination. Nor did I ingest several grams of potent psilocybin. Instead, my wife ...