LARB Quarterly, no. 49: Traffic

Summer 2026160 pages

    Buckle up! The LARB Quarterly, no 49: Traffic has arrived, featuring essays, fiction, excerpts, meditations, poetry, and more from LARB contributors new and known. Join LARB today for the keys to our newest issue.


    TABLE OF CONTENTS


    Features

    Aero Theatre by Lauren Rothery
    Postcards from Surfers by Annabel Brady-Brown


    Nonfiction

    How Does a Country Sound by Nyuol Lueth Tong
    To Look Without Purpose by Sarah Bochicchio
    Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist by Alex Press
    A Year on the U8 Line by Helen Mackreath
    A Brief History of Flow by Max L. Feldman
    Fakes of the Future by Krzysztof Pelc
    Traces of Erasure by Geoffrey Mak
    Consequences Accrue Downstream by Ash Sanders
    The Last of the Great Butterfly Collectors by Emil Leth Beiter


    From the Archives

    Your Presence Is Requested by Laura Frost


    Fiction

    Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini
    Advice from a Stunt Double by Susan Daitch


    Poetry

    [i can’t fight] by Fatimah Asghar
    Vigil Strange by Christina Davis
    A Few Miles from Prison by Kyle Carrero Lopez
    Human Mornings by Eleni Sikelianos
    Tokyo by Weijia Pan


    Art

    Hans-Peter Feldmann
    Cora Pongracz