“I’d like to see The Cincinnati Review become one of the leading journals in the country to publish edgy, innovative, truly groundbreaking literary nonfiction.” These are the words of our Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen, whose ambitious editorial mission guides our reading process here at The Cincinnati Review. We’ve been expanding our focus …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: Traci Brimhall’s “Heart Ghazal: An Essay” takes the signature move of the ghazal (the Radif, repetition) and gives it some room to breathe. This allows Traci to expand the (stetho)scope of the piece while still maintaining the Radif’s pounding inevitability. We get animal hearts and ghost hearts, hearts in their bodies …
We are pleased to share this review by José Angel Araguz of Canisia Lubrin’s The Dyzgraphxst (McClelland & Stewart, 2020), which appeared in Issue 18.1 as part of a special multigenre review feature on art and activism (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: Yxta Maya Murray’s story “YouTube Comment 2 to Video of I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys,” forthcoming in issue 14.2, straddles forms and categories. The basic conceit—a comment on YouTube—is perhaps the one that disintegrates the easiest. This is not to say that it doesn’t do any …
We are pleased to share this review by Jess Jelsma Masterton of Jeannie Vanasco’s Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl (Tin House Books, 2019), which appeared in Issue 18.1 as part of a special multigenre review feature on art and activism (read the entire feature here): During my first creative-nonfiction workshop, …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: Jolene McIlwain’s “Drumming” captures a tender moment between a waitress and customer, Dusty and Elbert, both broken in their own way, in the way we all are—the pain we try to fold into distracting shapes, the rhythm we tap along the diner counter, hoping someone will pick up on its …
We are pleased to share this review by Emrys Donaldson of Genevieve Hudson’s Boys of Alabama (Liveright, 2020), which appeared in Issue 18.1 as part of a special multigenre review feature on art and activism (read the entire feature here): Here in rural Alabama, dirt in every earthbound color retains vestiges of an ancient sea …
If you’ve been checking Twitter in the past 24 hours, you’ll have noticed some exciting news about a holy union between The Cincinnati Review and Poets.org. What does this mean for you, dear submitter? Well, if you submit—and have work accepted—to The Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, or Tin House, there’s a chance that …
We are pleased to share this review by Chip Livingston of Elissa Washuta’s White Magic (Tin House Books, 2021), which appeared in Issue 18.1 as part of a special multigenre review feature on art and activism (read the entire feature here): At the beginning of a magic show, a magician often invites the audience to …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: We’re pleased to present Chetna Maroo’s short fiction piece “A Hard Jar of Gunpowder” for this week’s miCRo feature. By beginning with allusions to Babel then moving onto smattered quotations from Kepler about attraction, Maroo’s unnamed speaker shows a clear interest in the invisible forces that prod our lives along. The …
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