Cincinnati Review

Sebastián H. Páramo’s “The Great Bear” opens with today’s changing, deconstructing landscape—the result of climate change.

A jog through Bed-Stuy becomes much more in Natan Last’s “The Runners.”

Bosses and shoppers inspire Joshua Gottlieb-Miller’s meditation on work and purpose.

Amy M. Alvarez’s “Spring Semester,” set at the beginning of a school day, opens with a sense of newness: the season, the day, and a teenager’s new red leather jacket.

In “I,” Kathleen Rooney plays with the most familiar letter in the alphabet.