

That spring, the wildflower bloom was the biggest in seven years. The Hollywood Hills turned green, soaking up unexpected rain. The mood in Los Angeles was good. If there were climate change and smog and drinking water ...
Superbloom by Maggie Weng
Fiction, LAR Online

Excerpt from “Yoshka” by Cristian Fulaş
Translated from the Romanian by Jozefina Komporaly
‘The body knows an awful lot more.’
Gheorghe Crăciun
‘Tomorrow is the shadow and the encounter ...
Excerpt from “Yoshka” Translated by Jozefina Komporaly
LAR Online, Translations

Matthew Burnside is the author of Wiki of Infinite Sorrows and Postludes, both from KERNPUNKT press. He teaches at Hollins University.
10 April ...
rockinghorse daydream called yes by Matthew Burnside
LAR Online, Poetry

I. Constitution
When I was ten, when we were happy, still a family all together on Glenn Road, I began a plastic model of the USS Constitution on my little desk. The hull rose from the keel; masts were erected; the ...
Mending What’s Broken by David Sapp
LAR Online, Nonfiction

Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide
by Juliet Patterson
Milkweed Editions
September 2022
ISBN: 978-1571311764
Curing Season: Artifacts
by Kristine Langley Mahler
University of West ...
Paired Book Review by Juliet Patterson & Kristine Langley Mahler
Book Reviews, LAR Online

In the end, Houston will launch us into outer spaceonce more. We’ll peer at what they call the little blue engine —
They’ll call it EARTH or a FAILURE in the distant future.They’ll tell us the story of ...
Lone Star by Sebastián H. Páramo
LAR Online, Poetry

Diaspora Café: D.C.
Anthology edited by Jeffrey Banks and Maritza Rivera
Reviewed by: Guesnerth Josué Perea
Publisher: Day Eight Books
Date Published: August 1, 2022
Length: 66 Pages
ISBN: ...
Diaspora Café: D.C. Reviewed by Guesnerth Josué Perea
Book Reviews, LAR Online

The boys in the madrasa have never touched the hands of any woman, except for their mothers or sisters. They invite Alef to play a game with them, led by seventeen-year-old Qaf, who wants to be the first to touch ...
Heaven by Mir Arif
Fiction, LAR Online

Ma Yan was born in Chengdu, China in 1979. A prolific writer and active member of the Beijing literary scene, she self-published two poetry collections and helped organize literary events including the ...