Launched in 2011 as online magazine to revive the great American tradition of the long-form literary and cultural arts review, the "Los Angeles Review of Books" has established itself as a new institution for writers and readers unlike anything else. A nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine, "LARB" combines serious book review with the evolving technologies of the web. The "LARB Quarterly Journal" reflects the best that this institution has to bring to readers all over the world.