(Editors’ note: Every year, the Mercantile Library, a local membership library, sponsors the Niehoff Lecture, a black-tie fundraiser that brings a literary star to Cincinnati for a dinner and lecture. For this year’s event, novelist Zadie Smith was interviewed by Jim Schiff, a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and a great friend …
Today the blinds are open, no matter how hot it is outside. Mom and I look down all twelve floors. My brother’s red car, the size of a pack of cigarettes, parallel parks between a motorcycle and a pickup truck. When he gets out of the car, he’s the size of a matchstick. Some girl …
Editorial Assistant Sakinah Hofler: When I first saw my reading list for my Forms class, I noted the usual suspects—Woolf, Austen, Elliot, Zadie Smith—then I paused at one title, The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones. Knowing Jones from her collection of realistic stories (Girl Trouble), I was surprised by the first line of description …
We are pleased to share this review by Brian Trapp of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom (Dalkey Archive Press, 2000 edition), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). Nobody reads Stanley Elkin anymore. He’s too perverse, too ironic, too …
We are pleased to share this review by Sonja Livingston of Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). Twenty years ago I sat with a dying friend in his hospital room. …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: Exploring the intersection between nation and citizen is never an easy undertaking for an artist, and poet Lynne Potts braves the task with startling skill in “Family Photo of America” (in our most recent issue, mailed to subscribers just last week!). From the very beginning, via the piece’s title, she invites us …
We are pleased to share this review by Daniella Toosie-Watson of Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: Brian Ma’s nonfiction piece “Shadows on the Korean Peninsula” artfully engages difficult political material via evocation, juxtaposition, and figurative suggestion. Moving between a lyrical meditation on Moon Joon-yong’s art piece Augmented Shadow and fact-driven vignettes about Korean culture, past and present, Ma refuses to let us shield our eyes from the nuclear …
We are pleased to share this review by Yalie Saweda Kamara of Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows …
We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 18.2 on joy, hope, and delight, including the following reviews: Sakinah Hofler on Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992 edition) Yalie Saweda Kamara on Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020) Daniella Toosie-Watson on Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, …
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