Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction.
Final Judge: Aimee Liu
Bored with straight-laced Israeli mores, I was determined to have sex with M. Tonight. I slipped on an ...
Graduate Studies in Hebrew by Sue William Silverman
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
review by Kion You
Sansei and Sensibility
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press, May 2020
$16.95, 232pp
ISBN: 978-1-56689-578-1
“Japanese Americans were used to Japanese Americans,” Karen Tei ...
Review: Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
It tugs at my nipple. Only the first pull is uncomfortable, then it finds its rhythm. I ...
Put A Teat In It! by Jennifer Lewis
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón
is the history of migration
even the continents refuse
to stay in one place
one day these ...
The History of the Earth by Miguel Angel Garcia, Jr.
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of short fiction.
Final Judge: Kristen Millares Young
Liu Ge woke up to a sky so bright that he thought he had slept until noon. He checked ...
Marseille in Light by An Yu
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle
Love in a Time of Terrorism
Where did you come from?
What land gave you your life?
The horizon is studded with pieces of fire.
Who said that the jasmine ...
Two Poems by Farouk Goweda
LAR Online, Translations
reviewed by Cynthia Arrieu-King
The Grave on the Wall
by Brandon Shimoda
City Lights Publishers, July 2019.
$16.95; 222 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-87286-790-1
Brandon Shimoda’s experimental memoir The Grave on ...
Review: The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón
What world did I open
by finding you—forty dollars of
milk-pale beast. Each of our lives
started ...
Thrift Store Fur by Aimee Seu
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
In her treatise The Writing Life, Annie Dillard notably wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our life. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos ...
Catching Days by Catherine Johnson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
