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