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Los Angeles Review of Books

Magazine of literary reviews

Field	Value
title	Los Angeles Review of Books
logo	Los Angeles Review of Books logo.svgclass=skin-invert
image_file	LARB Issue1.jpg
image_caption	Los Angeles Review of Books, Issue 1
language	English
founded
founder	Tom Lutz
category	Literature, culture, art, interviews
editor	Irene Yoon
editor_title2	Editor-in-Chief
editor2	Medaya Ocher
editor_title3	Preceded by
editor4	Albert Litewka
editor_title4	Founding Chair
editor3	Michelle Chihara (2023)
editor_title	Executive Director
firstdate	March 2013
based	Los Angeles, California
country	United States
website
oclc	904358349

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the magazine

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. A print edition premiered in May 2013.

Founded by Tom Lutz, Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, the Review seeks to redress the decline in Sunday book supplements by creating an online “encyclopedia of contemporary literary discussion.”

Coverage

The LARB features reviews of new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; original reviews of classic texts; essays on contemporary art, politics, and culture; and literary news from abroad, including Mexico City, London, and St. Petersburg.

The site also proposes looking seriously at detective fiction, thrillers, comics, graphic novels, and other writing often dismissed as genre fiction, and printing reviews of books published by university presses. Of these plans, Lutz has said: “What’s considered worthy of study in the literary world has shifted radically over the past 50 years, and it reflects the natural evolution of academic thought, which is constantly raising questions about what matters.”

Contributors

The site also features input from more than 200 contributing editors, including Reza Aslan, Aimee Bender, T. C. Boyle, Antonio Damasio, Jonathan Kirsch, Chris Kraus, Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jane Smiley, David Shields, Greil Marcus, Jaron Lanier and Jerry Stahl.

References

Werris, Wendy. (May 23, 2013). "'Los Angeles Review of Books' Debuts Print Edition". [[Publishers Weekly]].
(June 30, 2011). "The Los Angeles Review of Books". Columbia Journalism Review.
Ayoub, Nina. (July 20, 2010). "'The Los Angeles Review of Books' to Launch This Fall". [[The Chronicle of Higher Education]].
Werris, Wendy. (July 19, 2010). "'Los Angeles Review of Books' to Launch This Fall". Publishers Weekly.
[[McKenna, Kristine]]. (May 20, 2010). "Lutz: Keeper of the Printed Word". [[LA Weekly]].

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