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We are the official annual publication of the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop, an immersive, collaborative summer program designed for students and innovators interested in publishing.

An elaborate castle structure perches atop a monster's jaw, which swallows condemned souls.

A Corporate Digest

David followed the woman in the navy pantsuit toward a moment six years of school had been pointing to—countless dorm rooms, textbooks, and microwave dinners converging. Her five-inch-high heels led him down a precisely built hallway. It was simple yet thoroughly...

An impressionist painting with a white waterfall cascading down the middle as animals swim up its current. There are animals drinking from a pool of water at the bottom of the painting. There's a bright red mill to the left of the waterfall, while a large green tree is to the right. A city skyline can be seen in the background behind the waterfall and mill.

Omniscient

Omniscient “The Bewitched Mill” (1913), Franz Marc, Oil on Canvas. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. The river hides its openingsin the marsh.In this, it forcesme to see. I paddle up the channel.The wind blows off my hood.The tree ahead is...

Three women dressed in bright colors sit together on a couch and stare into the camera.

Amara Higuera Portfolio

Amara Higuera Portfolio Amara Higuera is a Mexican-American artist based in Los Angeles that experiments with the lens and its limitations to approach an identity that falls into the cracks between categories and the complex web of connections that shape it. Ranging...

A painting of a small island with a copse of tall dark trees in the center. In the foreground, smaller, a tall figure dressed in white stands on a boat being paddled to the center of the island by a servant.

Call Me Amalekite

"Isle of the Dead" (1880), Arnold Böcklin. Sourced from Wikimedia, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Is it enough tocall me Amalekite?A treacherous soul harbored inimperfect man. Is evilso...

Andrea Long Chu’s Females, Revised

Andrea Long Chu’s Females, Revised “At Your Own Expense” (2026), digital collage and mixed media, Lauren Burnham. Incorporates various silhouettes from the ledger book of William Bache (1803-12), sourced from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian...

An abstract relief carving in wood with organic textures, symbolic motifs, and a central open form. The piece emphasizes contrast, movement, and the beauty of hand-carved marks.

Room for Error: On Printmaking and the Limits of the Body

Room for Error: On Printmaking and the Limits of the Body Simone Zapata, Required Transfusion (2025). Courtesy of the artist and the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute, University of Iowa. At a printmaking studio in Miami, Florida, I lay out dozens of CT scans across my...

Abstract floral cluster with swirling lavender petals around a dark central opening, orange-and-white striped tongue-like forms, and coral-textured petals covered in small pore-like dots.

Daniela Martén Rothe Portfolio

“Diosa Lenguona” (2021) Oil on canvas. 150×120 cm. Copyright Daniela Marten Rothe (2026)

A ghostly portrait of Anne Boleyn by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Anne Boleyn in the Manosphere: What Ava Pickett’s hot new period piece can teach us about misogyny’s past and present

On April 26, 2025, just over one week before Ava Pickett’s 1536 premiered for its sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre in London, 38-year-old Owen Lawrence attacked the popular Otley Run pub crawl in Leeds, England, seriously injuring two women. In January of that...