Assistant Editor Molly Reid: Halloween is upon us. The time for pumpkin-carving, haunted houses, and candy. For young and old to dress up in costumes, try on other identities, inhabit the unknown, the sexy, the scary (or, sometimes, the downright terrible). It is also the time for that other Halloween favorite: the telling of ghost …
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Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: Jess Smith’s “Path of Totality” presents us with a moving, complex, and multilayered exploration of what it means to see and be seen. After viewing the solar eclipse, the poem’s speaker reflects on her absentee father (“My father lives near here / I’ve heard, alone, in a cave or a …
Ants push god aside, emerging from their many tunnelsin what we term a “colony” while they don’t—taking umbrage,though having the grace to keep to their purpose, concomitantwith god emergent manifold and compelled across interlinkedtunnels with those mouths out of a constellation of gravel. Over the hill, many different ant IDs cross lines of forage,and traces …
“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 …
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