LARB — the Los Angeles Review of Books — is a nonprofit digital and print publication that has become one of the most important literary review platforms in the United States since its founding in 2011. The publication covers books, culture, and ideas with the depth and seriousness of a traditional literary review and the accessibility and range of the best digital media.
Each issue — whether digital or in its periodic print editions — features book reviews, essays, interviews, and cultural criticism that span literature, politics, science, art, and philosophy. The writing is consistently excellent, drawing on a network of contributors that includes academics, novelists, journalists, and public intellectuals. LARB takes books seriously as objects of cultural significance, not merely as products to be reviewed, and its criticism aims to illuminate rather than merely evaluate.
Based in Los Angeles, the publication brings a West Coast sensibility to a literary landscape traditionally dominated by New York institutions. It has expanded into a publishing imprint, a podcast network, and educational programming, building an ecosystem around the core belief that serious literary culture deserves a serious, sustainable platform.
For readers who care about books, ideas, and the critical conversation that surrounds them, LARB is one of the essential publications of the twenty-first century.
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