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Fiction Essays Poetry Interviews Reviews Blog

Fiction

Aren’t We All?

By Mauro Guidi-Signorelli

By Sándor Jászberényi

Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry

The Joker’s Smile Cannot Stop the World Turning

By Niall McArdle

Swordfished in Nantucket

By Terese Svoboda

Essays

By Elizabeth Bachner

A Certain Convocation of Worms

By Scott Bartley

Yerevan on the Charles: An Homage to Diana Der-Hovanessian

By Askold Melnyczuk

A Toast to the King of Bohemia

By Askold Melnyczuk

Losing Stephen Dixon

By William Pierce

Seventeen Notes on Singing

By Clifford Thompson

Poetry

For Goya’s Public Ice Skaters of Spain

Notebook Fragments, 1952–1954

By André du Bouchet

Translated from the French by Eric Fishman

By Richard Kenney

By Richard Kenney

By Hailey Leithauser

“I’m lucky my parents were peasants”

By Oksana Lutsyshyna

Translated from the Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk and Oksana Lutsyshyna

Interviews

Beyond the Cocktail-Party Version: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison

By Yvonne Conza

Reviews

The Outrageous Layers of Things: A Review of Marianne Boruch’s The Anti-Grief

By Emilia Phillips

Blog

The Epic Tussle: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Voluntary Displacement: Two Questions with Lisa Chen

Struggling against Silence: Two Questions with David Hayden

Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies (Part 1)

By James Arthur

Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies (Part 2)

By James Arthur

The Moral Thing

By Bipin Aurora

Losing the Lifeblood of World Literature

The Writer’s Image

By Sven Birkerts

The Accident of This River: After James Tate

By Carol Ann Davis

On Translating Li Bai’s “Parting at Changgan”

By Kenneth DeWoskin and Rachel DeWoskin

Ghosts among the Trees

By Erica X Eisen

When Things Flip All the Way Around: Recognition and Reversal

By Bonnie Friedman

The Night Mary Oliver Died, or Collateral Joy

By J. P. Grasser

Teaching the Short Story as a Living Form

By Caitlin Horrocks

Someone to Love: How to Create a Convincing and Interesting Character

By Sheila Kohler

Betwixt and Between: The Poet’s “Dream”and Social Imperatives

Regarding Handke, Pound, D’Annunzio, and Company

By Kai Maristed

Money, Deadlines, and Water

By Alice Mattison

Unsolvable Mysteries

By Scott Nadelson

The Philosophical Comedy of Adam Ehrlich Sachs

A Poet’s Quiz

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

Revisiting Poems of Grief: On Ordinary Mourning

By Carrie Shipers

Reading in the Dark

By Grace Singh Smith

Homage to Former Teachers

By Anthony Varallo

2019

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