13+ hour, 21+ min ago  (202+ words) History, after all, is a haunting that cannot be exorcised. The only question left for us is how well we can learn to live with its ghosts. Featured image: Cover of Floodlines by Saleem Haddad, painting by Nazar Selim. Katherine…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (672+ words) Hal Fischer: Seminal Works by Hal Fischer. Aperture, 2026. 206 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Your language in Gay Semiotics is quite dry. You don't leave room for poetic interpretation. How was the process of trimming and editing your copy, especially being…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (286+ words) This expansion holds the promise of inspiring and revivifying a sense of democratic life. But for that to happen, a hard barrier and a boundary must be removed from talk of freedom dreams. The freedom dream of integration needs to…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (143+ words) Join us June 6 + 7 at LITLIT for this and other panels! Held at SCI-Arc, LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair is a free festival celebrating the West Coast Literary Arts, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (105+ words) Maddie Connors is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles who has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and W Magazine. She's a writer for the Short Takes column at the Los Angeles Review of Books....

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (105+ words) Join us June 6 + 7 at LITLIT for this and other panels! Held at SCI-Arc, LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair is a free festival celebrating the West Coast Literary Arts, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (149+ words) Join us June 6 + 7 at LITLIT for this and other panels! Held at SCI-Arc, LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair is a free festival celebrating the West Coast Literary Arts, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (214+ words) Join us June 6 + 7 at LITLIT for this and other panels! Held at SCI-Arc, LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair, is a free festival celebrating the West Coast Literary Arts, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (179+ words) Join us June 6 + 7 at LITLIT for this and other panels! Held at SCI-Arc, LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair, is a free festival celebrating the West Coast Literary Arts, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (147+ words) Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills. Tachyon Publications, 2026. 256 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Ruth Joffre is a Bolivian American writer and the author of the story collection Night Beast (2018). Her work has been short-listed for the Creative Capital…...