Launched in 2011 as online magazine to revive the great American
tradition of the long-form literary and cultural arts review, the Los
Angeles Review of Books has established itself as a new institution for
writers and readers unlike anything else. A nonprofit, multimedia
literary and cultural arts magazine, LARB combines serious book review
with the evolving technologies of the web. The LARB Quarterly Journal
reflects the best that this institution has to bring to readers all over
the world. Cultivating a stable of regular contributors, both eminent
(Jane Smiley, Mike Davis, Jonathan Lethem) and emerging (Jenny Hendrix,
Colin Dickey, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah), LARB achieves a certain tone that
readers expect and enjoy: looser and more eclectic than other journals,
grounded in literature but open to all varieties of cultural experience,
far from the New York publishing hothouse atmosphere but not myopically
focused on Los Angeles either. The LARB Quarterly Journal builds on
the best aspects of the online magazine and proves that long-form
literary and cultural arts review is alive and well.