Los Angeles Review of Books

{{Short description|Magazine of literary reviews}}

{{About|the magazine|the unrelated journal|Los Angeles Review|the salad|larb}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Use American English|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox magazine

| image_file = LARB Issue1.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = Los Angeles Review of Books, Issue 1

| language = English

| founded = {{Start date and age|2011}}

| founder = Tom Lutz

| category = Literature, culture, art, interviews

| editor = Irene Yoon

| editor_title2 = Editor-in-Chief

| editor2 = Medaya Ocher

| editor_title3 = Preceded by

| editor4 = Albert Litewka

| editor_title4 = Founding Chair

| editor3 = Michelle Chihara (2023)

| editor_title = Executive Director

| firstdate = March 2013

| based = Los Angeles, California

| country = United States

| website = {{URL|lareviewofbooks.org}}

| oclc = 904358349

}}

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB{{--)}} is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. A print edition premiered in May 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/57363-los-angeles-review-of-books-debuts-print-edition.html |title='Los Angeles Review of Books' Debuts Print Edition |author=Werris, Wendy |date=May 23, 2013 |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=May 8, 2014 |archive-date=August 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831012915/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/57363-los-angeles-review-of-books-debuts-print-edition.html |url-status=live }}

Founded by Tom Lutz,{{cite news |last1=Kirchner |first1=Lauren |title=The Los Angeles Review of Books |url=https://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/2011/06/the-los-angeles-review-of-books.php |access-date=25 February 2021 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |date=June 30, 2011 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925235343/https://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/2011/06/the-los-angeles-review-of-books.php/ |url-status=live }} Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, the Review seeks to redress the decline in Sunday book supplements by creating an online “encyclopedia of contemporary literary discussion.”{{cite web |url=http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Los-Angeles-Review-of/25674 |title='The Los Angeles Review of Books' to Launch This Fall |author=Ayoub, Nina |date=July 20, 2010 |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |access-date=August 15, 2010 |archive-date=July 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729135413/http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Los-Angeles-Review-of/25674/ |url-status=dead }}