LA Review of Books (December 11, 2024) – The latest issue, #43 – Fixation, features:

Conversation

A Precise Excavation of the Soul: A Conversation with Hilton Als by Melissa Seley

Nonfiction

Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature by Jenny Fran Davis

Our Ambassadors to the Future: Relics of—and for—ourselves by Christina Wood

The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ by Brontez Purnell

Homespun Tiara: A Profile of Model and Activist Geena Rocero by Enzo Escober

Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition: A report from the al-Tanf military compound by Charlie Clewis

Bedrock: On gravesites literal and not by Charley Burlock

American Blondes: Are we having more fun yet? by Arielle Gordon

Fiction

Bright by Grace Byron

Finishing Moves by Evan McGarvey

Witches of Fresno and Pigfoot by Venita Blackburn

The Good Life by Brady Brickner-Wood

The Aforementioned Journal by David Hollander

Poetry

Srdičko Bolí by Claressinka Anderson

Has Your Spirit Dried Up? by emet ezell

I Haven’t Heard My Brother’s Voice in Ten Years by Douglas Manuel

Montauk by Connie Voisine

Straining for the Noise by Jenny Xie

Art

Lida Abdul