What We’re Reading: Mavis Gallant’s Paris Stories
Ryan Ruff Smith: Mavis Gallant is one of those realists who, upon close examination, is weirder...
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Author: Cincinnati Review
Obstacles & Aversions
Rochelle Hurt: There is something to be said for writing against or away from received traditions and natural proclivities. Often, the result is a kind of verve and vigor we may not otherwise access. Several contributors to CR...
Read MoreComing at you, LA!
Making final preparations for AWP. All you conference-goers: our table is 1141. Please stop by and take advantage of our SPECIAL OFFERS. Anyone who subscribes or renews will get to choose two of the wonderful woodblock relief...
Read MoreComic Call
We’re grateful for the robust response to our call for comics and other graphic art. We ended up selecting a fun image by Allen Forrest, which will appear in our May issue. We had only one page to fill this time out, but...
Read MoreSend Us Your Comics!
We have an unusual situation here—one, in fact, that has never happened before. A poet withdrew her poem after we’d sent the May issue to the typesetter. (Bad form. Very, very, very, VERY bad form.) So now we have...
Read MoreShopping Cart Down
Apologies to those of you who have recently tried to subscribe or order individual issues via our website. Our merchant account was deactivated due to some suspicious transactions (read: fraud). We’ve been working to get...
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Spring Issue Proofs!
They have arrived! As of today, we’ll be proofreading like mad until the job is done....
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “The Brief Second Life of Winston Whithers’s Wife” by Leslie Entsminger
Eric Van Hoose: Ghost stories tend to hinge on the question of the ghost’s existence. Either the figment is real or it isn’t, and story’s purpose is to find the answer. But from the first moments of Leslie Entsminger’s...
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Frameable Art for AWP!
We’ve been working on something special for this year’s AWP conference and book fair...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: Joshua Coben’s “Antechamber”
Antechamber – Joshua Coben* The father is a dark door the son may lean against to listen for the locked room of himself, his next life. Later he will listen there for the echo of his own death. Meanwhile he becomes a dark door...
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