Aria Aber’s “The Institution”
In a new poem from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Aria Aber imagines the joy of a rock rolled endlessly uphill.
Aria Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan parents. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Granta, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collection Hard Damage (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) and the forthcoming novel Good Girl (Hogarth, 2025), which will be translated into six languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
In a new poem from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Aria Aber imagines the joy of a rock rolled endlessly uphill.
Aria Aber examines “The Curious Thing” by Sandra Lim.