The Los Angeles Review

Tu le connais lecteur, ce monster dèlicat, Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère! —Charles Baudelaire My own excessive delicacy, thankless humility, and various muddled activities over the past ...

The Great Secret by Moikom Zeqo translated by Wayne Miller

LAR Online, Translations

Telemetry. I woke up with a desire to use that word today but couldn't figure out how. It's nearing, oh, eleven o'clock now—PM, mind you—and I still haven't got it right. At the diner this morning I asked the server ...

Sources Say by Bradley David

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta Review by Catherine McNulty Publisher: Arrowsmith Press Publication Date: October 15, 2023 ISBN: 979-8987924112 Pages: 136 Diane Mehta’s bold new collection of ...

Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta Review by Catherine McNulty

Book Reviews, LAR Online

With Darlings Alone I am at my very best but I seem always to be followed by darlings darlings with sharp teeth or darlings with fuzzy bodies or darlings with big bellies or darlings with wide ...

2 poems by Adele Elise Williams

LAR Online, Poetry

Before “I hope I’m not boring you,” he said. “What do you mean?” I said. “Look, that’s what it says here.” My husband, balanced on the bottom step of a broad stairway of the detached, ...

A Frail Perishable Thing by Frances Hider

LAR Online, Nonfiction

I knew it was going to be a bad day when Eliana called. I was playing hooky, walking through a white-walled art gallery, beneath a helix of tiny red, blue, and green sports cars suspended by hundreds of thin wires. ...

Say a Prayer for the Pretender by Alli Cruz

Fiction, LAR Online

As a child I used to climb our apple tree up close to the power lines where I could hear them crackling. My mouth-watered and fingers tingled when I imagined touching the wires. Our tree had knotty skin with crooked ...