LARB CHANNELS
The LARB Channels are a community of wholly independent online magazines specializing in fiction, poetry, literary criticism, politics, science, religion, and culture, supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Avidly specializes in short-form critical essays that respond to literature and culture by blending critical rigor with enthusiasm.
The China Channel is a hub for smart writing about Chinese culture, society and politics, as well as a steady diet of book reviews. Other regular features include a column on Chinese language, book club style discussions of Chinese stories in translation, and staff picks recommending the best China reading. We publish three to four stories a week, and are a reinvention of the BLARB China blog.
diaCRITICS is an arts and culture blog of the Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora, covering literature, visual and interdisciplinary art, film, politics, news and events throughout the diaspora. We publish multilingually and strive to promote dialogue across boundaries. Our diaspora includes points from SE Asia to the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and more.
The Eephus is a forum for writers of all kinds to tell stories about the sports they love, at all levels of play.
"The narcotic of intelligent conversation." With its high-powered, long-form conversations, Entitled Opinions has fans around the globe, from Australia to China, Mexico to Russia. Its host, Robert Pogue Harrison, has interviewed some of our era's leading figures in literature, philosophy, science, and cultural history for over a decade. Harrison is the Stanford Rosina Pierotti Professor of French and Italian literature and the author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, The Dominion of the Dead, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, and The Body of Beatrice. In an era that favors the tweet, Harrison refuses to dumb it down: "This show offers the narcotic of intelligent conversation." Past guests have included Richard Rorty, René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Shirley Hazzard, Orhan Pamuk, Colm Tóibin, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Ehrlich, Michel Serres, Hayden White, and Abraham Verghese. Entitled Opinions airs on Stanford University's KZSU (90.1 FM) and is available on iTunes.
Guernica is a non-profit magazine dedicated to global art and politics, published online since 2004. With contributors from every continent and at every stage of their careers, we are a home for singular voices, incisive ideas, and critical questions.
HKRB is focused on the discussion and promotion of texts of all varieties and from all over the world. We are particularly interested in what we think of as 'radical' texts (any text which challenges normative ideas, assumptions and practices) and in promoting discussions of Hong Kong literature, and of literature in Hong Kong.
Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Podcast Review is a newly founded website dedicated to reviewing podcasts and interviewing their creators. We hope to build a home for the thoughtful discussion of podcasts.
The official journal of the Los Angeles Review of Books / USC Publishing Workshop, an immersive, collaborative summer program designed for students and innovators interested in publishing.
Soap Ear is a Los Angeles-based publication that serves the city's musical extremities— the critics, outsiders, experimenters, dreamers, academics, sound artists, and concrete poets who will also be regular contributors to this platform. Published four times a year, each issue of Soap Ear features and critiques musical objects (pieces, shows or installations) that touch or disrupt our editors' creative vision. Covering shows, installations, and new music releases, we also publish mixtapes, artist interviews, essays, scores, poetry and anything else that fits.
Tell Your True Tale is a writing workshop devised by journalist Sam Quinones. The goal of TYTT is to demystify writing, while helping new writers -especially people who have published very little, or nothing at all, before - cultivate their storytelling voices.
The Marginalia Review of Books is an international review of literature and culture in the nexus of history, theology, and religion.
The Philosopher's Plant seeks to lift the curtain on the role of vegetation in the making (and in the growth) of thought.
The Philosophical Salon's mission is to bring together leading intellectuals from across the world in a single forum where their reflections on things that matter to us all can be heard.
The first season of the Reading Opens Minds podcast, produced by the people behind the Reading Opens Minds non-profit, whose mission is "to promote literacy in at-risk communities through book clubs, empowering individuals, building relationships and inspiring hope." This podcast will follow a group of teenagers in Los Angeles, who will meet each week to discuss a book, their ideas and their lives. Like MTV's The Real World, we hope to introduce you to a new generation. You will get to know these talented young men and women intimately as they tell their own stories through the books they read.
Voluble is an off-the-page makers' space for writers and artists of all kinds. The channel aspires to be an outlet for experimentation, play, collaboration, and any other gestures that coincide with a visual or literary art practice.