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“A Loneliness So Pure” by Marcus Jackson

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 7, 2019 | Samples

The world encouraged me to completemy doctorate in shamelessness. “You’ll hurt to not be part of...

“The Day an Elephant Walked across the River Thames (1814)” by Chris Hutchinson

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 7, 2019 | Samples

I’m certain that morning I heard wasps droningbeneath each floating, sunlit surface.The billowing...

“Sheppey” by Maggie Smith

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 7, 2019 | Samples

See more poems from Issue 16.1 by purchasing a copy in our online store. Digital copies only...

Bonus Track: Unpack Your Adjectives

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 6, 2019 | From our Contributors

In her review of Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Dial, 2014) in...

Saying Goodbye to Our Associate Editors

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 2, 2019 | Editors' Dispatches

As the school year winds down and we get ready to welcome our summer assistant editors, we also say goodbye to Caitlin Doyle and Molly Reid, who have been CR editors for two years now.

“Dances for Armenian Women,” by Naira Kuzmich

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 1, 2019 | Samples

In memory of our contributor Naira Kuzmich, and with the permission of her family, we’d like to make her full essay from Issue 13.2 available now. (Use the arrows at the bottom of the PDF embedder to scroll through.) See...

miCRo: “See Through” by Alex Myers

Posted by Cincinnati Review | May 1, 2019 | miCRo

My brother is seven and I am five. This is the unbridgeable expanse between us. It will always be that way. Another expanse between us, back then: he is a boy and I am a girl. He knows things that I don’t know. Like about the dicks on the urns.