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LARB Quarterly

In this issue

  • How should a magazine measure the passage of time? Sheer survival is one way. The past 15 years have not been particularly kind to media. And yet, despite the circumstances, this organization managed to grow in remarkable ways.
  • This anthology stands as a testament to the time that has passed but also, more importantly, to the work of the many, many people who have discussed, underslept, fundraised, fretted, proofed, written, designed, and edited along the way. LARB simply wouldn’t be here without them. It also wouldn’t be here without the city that has allowed it to grow so exponentially, provided it with space, with its own brand of intellectual curiosity.
  • The pieces in this collection are all pulled from our expansive online archives. Over the past 15 years, we have published approximately 16,400 articles, so curating this anthology was not an easy task. This collection is not meant to be exhaustive, or the “best of the best,” but rather representative of a certain LARBiness—that combination of critical attention and Los Angeles ease.

LARB Book Club

Join LARB readers, editors, and staff for engaging quarterly discussions of handpicked new releases. See some of our most recent selections below.

  • "Superstars" by Ann Scott

    One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a carnal portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the ‘90s, the LARB Book Club Spring 2026 pick is Ann Scott's novel, Superstars.

    Feb 12

    • “Mother Mary Comes to Me” by Arundhati Roy

      In her first work of memoir, acclaimed author Arundhati Roy recounts her remarkable life, tracing in particular her complicated relationship to her mother Mary. Vulnerable, compassionate, and sagacious at once, the LARB Book Club Fall 2025 pick is “Mother Mary Comes to Me” by Arundhati Roy.

      Jul 16, 2025

      • “Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo

        Dive into a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement in the LARB Book Club Summer 2025 pick “Fresh, Green Life” by Sebastian Castillo.

        May 28, 2025

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        Editors’ Salon

        Dive deeper into some of LARB’s most exciting new pieces, along with the writers and editors who produced them. See below for our most recent conversations.