Why We Like It: christopher oscar peña’s The Strangers
Issue 15.2 has arrived in our offices! We’ll be mailing it out to contributors this week,...
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Author: Cincinnati Review
excerpt from “The Crow in Effigy: A Flip-Book,” by Sarah Minor
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Read More“I Carceri,” by Amit Majmudar
If the mind is one of those Piranesi prisons, she said, full of darkly nested architectural redundancies—as we know the human brain is, with its neurons like ropes slung precariously from cell to cell, and interrupted spiral...
Read More“Georgic on The Boston Comma,” by Keith Kopka
Begin with knowing the comma is a word and the word is always fuckin’. Forget the gerund, then torque the lazy u into an a, and let the vowel kneel into the roof of your mouth like a penitent against a church pew. Stretch the c...
Read More“Dear Maker,” by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
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Read More“So Chinese Girl,” by Dorothy Chan
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Read More“Fifteen,” by Kimberly Johnson
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Read Moreexcerpt from “The Key to the Fields,” by Sarah Blackman
Rita came home from the war. The town was not as if she had never left. Some things had changed. The Taco Bell, for instance, was closed, but another had opened on the next street. The Church of the Passionate Blood, with its...
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miCRo: “Metaphor” by Nicky Beer
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “Metaphor,” just as the poem’s speaker...
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What We’re Reading: Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend
Just in time for the National Book Award ceremony tomorrow, we’d like to share an...
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