LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 19, 2025): The latest issue of LARB features ‘Submission’ – all new essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, and art reexamining the complex conditions of power (or a lack thereof).

Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone’s ostensibly airless spaces;

Jack Lubin examines the relationship between rap and supervised release;

Charley Burlock interrogates the myths surrounding wildfires, grief, and California’s supposed “gasoline trees”;

Cory Bradshaw describes the art and agony involved in making amateur porn;

Nathan Crompton and Andrew Witt discuss the documentary form and photographing Los Angeles

Become a member for all of that and more—including essays and features by Alexander Chee, Elizabeth Rush, and Tal Rosenberg; interviews with Samual Rutter and Abdulrazak Gurnah;

Plus, an excerpt from Yvan Algabé’s Misery of Love; fiction by Erin Taylor, Devin Thomas O’Shea, and A. Cerisse Cohen

Poetry by Farnoosh Fathi, Paula Bohince, John James, Caitlyn Klum, Sawako Nakayasu, and Harryette Mullen;

And art by Carla Williams and Talia Chetrit.