LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien

We’re over the moon to announce the LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien, featuring meditations, essays, fiction, poetry, and more from LARB contributors new and known. Prep for landing and join today to get your issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

The Grove by Tajja Isen
Lost Horizons: Contact and Alambrista by Brendan Boyle

Nonfiction

One Step Removed from Ash: Archiving loss after the L.A. fires by Vanessa Holyoak
The Rest Is History: On Gaza and the limits of the war photograph by Mary Turfah
The Dragon Is for Her: My father, the spy by Jennifer Kabat
Against the Wound: What art can say about empire by Jake Romm
Unsettled Enough: Displacement and the vagaries of “citizenship” by Nitish Pahwa
Vous Écoutez RFI: On the need to listen closer by Anna Gaca

Art

Lebbeus Woods
Zarina

Fiction

Tourists by Greta Rainbow
Dogs of the Solar Steppe by Ari Braverman
Peter and the Women by Sara Levine

Excerpt

From To the Madhouse: A Novel by Robert Rubsam

Poetry

Ars Poetica: The Thing Is … by Leah Umansky
Communiqué in Brain (or, Early Universe) and Terrotica by Rickey Laurentiis
Adams by Nico Amador
From The Dog by aracelis girmay
To the Alien by Timothy Donnelly
Janis Carter Lives in Gambia for Years to Rehabilitate Lucy the Chimp Back into the Wild by Jeremy Ra