Cincinnati Review

It will be better, our friend said,           to just accept that everythingis gone—as though lightening            with that expression the weight of each breathless            click throughout the evening,as on a map we watched            her apartment standing right beyond the fire’s red            line but never crossingin. As if after evacuating            the home, one next empties hope. I …

There’s a feeling of inevitability about trains—a stubbornness in the way a train moves along its track without deviation.

In “Or Better Yet,” Llanes Brownlee captures the whirlwind of color and sound of a bustling family gathering.

In this darkly comic hybrid piece, Michael Hugh Stewart charts an escalating feud over eviction and erasure.

An incantatory poem with rich images from the natural world and a deft hand with syntactical ambiguity.

We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 20.1 with craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing in various genres, including (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)

In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Jay Franklin’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) Fleabag. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator. First aired in the …

In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Philip Metres’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) (To use the PDF embedder to see additional …