The Los Angeles Review of Books launched as online-only magazine in
April 2011 to revive the great American tradition of the long form
literary and cultural arts review. Today, we've created a new
institution for writers and readers unlike anything else on the web. The
LARB Quarterly Journal is our flagship print edition of the magazine,
reflecting the best that this institution has to bring to readers all
over the world.
We've cultivated a stable of regular contributors, both eminent (Jane
Smiley, Mike Davis, Jonathan Lethem) and emerging (Jenny Hendrix, Colin
Dickey, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah). We've found our way to 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 L.A. either.
The LARB Quarterly Journal builds on the best aspects of our flagship
online magazine. The long form literary and cultural arts review is
alive and well, and now, has a new home in Los Angeles.