Associate Editor James Ellenberger: In “Icebox” Joshua Jones explores a lesbian relationship between two aging women, focusing on a visit from one of their families after Sunday services. What I love about this story is how effectively the characters allow themselves—despite past hardships—to be happy. For instance, the mastectomy’s subsequent accoutrement (the “breasts in …
Wendy can’t help hovering outside the den when her fourteen-year-old daughter’s older friend Harris first comes over to play video games on a Saturday. They’re talking about a woman named Cora Goodnight, all over the local news for killing (probably) her three husbands and her pastor. The church-directory photo posted with each telling of her …
With great jubilation, we’d like to introduce our new drama editor—the very first for The Cincinnati Review—Brant Russell, as well as our new venture, publishing plays-in-progress. With help from the Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwriting, we’re expanding what the CR publishes to include four genres. Brant knows his stuff: He’s …
Today is a big day at The Cincinnati Review! We are blowing our bugles, banging our drums, and summoning our in-house bards to spread the news: Our new Poetry Editor Rebecca Lindenberg has started her tenure at the journal, and we couldn’t be more jubilant to introduce her to our readers. Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman …
. . . It started on a Monday. That much you remember clearly. The Old Man was due back from his tropical vacation, and HR had issued a reminder that he could be “mercurial” in times of transition. You’d all been on the business end of his black moods a time or ten, so by …
For this special audio blog, we’re excited to present contributor Vincent Hiscock (issue 14.2) as he reads not only his own poem from our pages but also the work of Gary Snyder (“Piute Creek”), William Wordsworth (“The World Is Too Much with Us”), and Denise Levertov (“O Taste and See”). He sees a tether between …
We are pleased to share this review by Jenny Molberg of Lucia LoTempio’s Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James, 2020), which appeared in Issue 19.1 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on the ethics and craft of crime writing (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to …
We are pleased to share this craft essay by Aimée Baker on writing crime-inspired poetry and nonfiction, which appeared in Issue 19.1 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on the ethics and craft of crime writing (read the entire feature here): The winding two-lane road rises steadily ahead of me as …
It is with complicated emotions that we announce that Don Bogen will be stepping down as poetry editor of the magazine. Don has served The Cincinnati Review for just over thirteen years. During that time, he has worked with grace, intelligence, and precise vision in choosing and shaping the poetry in our magazine’s pages, poems …
We are pleased to share this craft essay by Frankie Y. Bailey on writing crime fiction, which appeared in Issue 19.1 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on the ethics and craft of crime writing (read the entire feature here): As a PhD in criminal justice, I do qualitative research focusing …
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