2025 | issue 8.0
Table of Contents
Mokosh Eating a Sandwich
Monica Carrier, 2025
CATEGORIES
Creative Prose
Happy Heavenly Birthday Brad Renfro
"Manipulated mugshot of Brad Renfro (original 2000)" (2025), NIGHTSHADE (Alejandro Concas-Rivas). Courtesy of artist.WHEN...
The Execution
It was the twenty-fourth of December and my firm had given us the day off. I thought I would spend the day at home, but the...
Maybe is the Most Beautiful Word in the World
Aleatoric: Solely dependent on the throw of a dice or on chance; random. There’s something barreling towards me. Hulking. I...
What You Missed While You Were Dead
Welcome to the Memory Database, Charlie. Who would you like to speak to? Who would I like to speak to? Every time I come...
My Suitcase of Fragments
I’m sitting on the bed, unpacking my suitcase. I’m not entirely sure where I am. Somewhere near the border of France and...
Dried-Up Stars (Lightning Bugs in My Stomach)
“Have you cried yet? I’ve only cried once.” My sister Thea’s speech is precise, like she’s not been wandering her mind...
Iconography—Holy Mothers
Consider the work of God;who can make straight what he has made crooked?—Eccles. 7:13 (NRSV)Her name was Elizabeth...
mama sārah and me
facing my mother in her lavish living room, i blow a red balloon. my younger sister, mellow with hash, tosses a yellow one...
Aging Like Fine Wine
SINDHU AAJI ALWAYS opened the door with a smile and a list of questions. No matter how often this happened, I never felt...
Echo of Her Dreams
FROM AN EARLY AGE, as the daughter of immigrants, you see resilience reveal itself in small, unnoticed moments. It comes as...
Essays
I Get So Hungry When You Say You Love Me: Feminist Cannibalism
TWO UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS about Mimi Cave’s 2022 horror-romance Fresh: One, the meatball of human flesh, resting heavy and...
Writing Herself Into the Frame: Jenna Ortega and the Aesthetics of Latina Self-Authorship
"Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill," (1628), Pieter Claesz. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.IN THE...
Is Your Outfit Saying More than You Are?
NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Manhattan. The Fashion District. Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Breaths hang heavy in the winter evening...
On Infamous Crimes Against Nature
What began as unremarkable arrests in the quiet suburbs of...
The Women Historical Fiction Forgets
SOME WOMEN’S STORIES demand patience. I have learned this over the years through my research on food history and pouring...
Poetry
Como La Luna
For my dear queer friend from Lima, Perú, Alejandra Watanabe Farro.¡Con amor y respeto por aquellas pláticas de corazón a...
Ekphrasis of Tony Conrad’s “Four Violins”
In the foreground, this chain saw tears and rips. [PUSH] Jagged tooth blade, oscillates up/down not pulsing,...
I Call My Hound Rage and He Moves
He walks backward on command, thick fur teeming with grays reversing back to flat.After he’s fed I see him swimming the...
I Am Not Ready But It Is Time
I’m moving a black shadow. The gall sleeps top and toewith the somnambulist and leavesno dissonance.Every year is my last...
Winter Blues
Maybe it was just the Winter, seeping through my bones into my heart, the grasp...
Visual Arts
Kari Varner Porfolio
Artist StatementThe echoes of industry and human presence are inscribed upon the landscape. This body of work explores...
Disoriented with Time: Ruins in the Switchbacks
Artist Statement In this photography series, I highlight the architectural remnants in the Switchbacks located near...
Monica Carrier Art Portfolio
Domesticity gets deified in Monica Carrier’s collection, bringing high and low together to showcase the absurdities and...
Masthead
EDITORIAL
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Agnes Cheung Arshia Singh Ben Ou Carlo Acevedo Eden A. Unger Hiba Tahir Julien Pope Libby Hsieh |
Lucrezia Di Vincenzo Madelyn Dawson Mia Limmer Natalie Finander Olivia Sandvik Ryan Riffenburgh Tucker Smith Victoria Murguia |
COPYEDITING
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Agnes Cheung Ainsley Adeline Davis Ainsley Escobar Ugras Aisik Maiti Arshia Singh |
Clifford Gant Mars Rehman Mia Limmer Shannon Young Tanya Young |
ART DIRECTION
Abel Reyes
Alejandro Concas-Rivas
Bhakti Verma
Eunsun Choi
Flynn Mixdorf
Sayantika Mandal
Victoria Albert
PRODUCTION
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Agnes Cheung Ainsley Adeline Davis Ainsley Escobar Ugras Aisik Maiti Arshia Singh Ben Ou Bhakti Verma Eunsun Choi |
Hiba Tahir Libby Hsieh Lucrezia Di Vincenzo Mars Rehman Mia Limmer Natalie Finander Olivia Sandvik Ryan Riffenburgh Victoria Murguia |
SOCIAL MEDIA
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Alejandro Concas-Rivas Carlo Acevedo Clifford Gant Eden A. Unger Flynn Mixdorf Julien Pope |
Madelyn Dawson Sayantika Mandal Shannon Young Tanya Young Tucker Smith Victoria Albert |
ADVISORS
JONATHAN HAHN, FACULTY ADVISOR, EDITORIAL
EMILY THOMPSON, ART DIRECTOR ADVISOR
SHAY ALTMAN, PUBLAB COORDINATOR
FRANCIS RUIZ, PUBLAB MANAGING EDITOR AND PRODUCTION ADVISOR
AJ URQUIDI, COPYDESK ADVISOR
ISABEL YI JIMENEZ, AJ URQUIDI, COPYDESK COORDINATOR
MAYA CHEN, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR
SOPHIA ZHANG, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
PUBLAB ISSUE 8.0 IS A PRODUCTION OF THE 2025 LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS PUBLISHING WORKSHOP