The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: NIGHT HANDS a story by Jen Cross, with an introduction by Elizabeth Harries- available this week! “As the first rays of sun pierced the night in the surrounding wood, Old Mother Ganz raised the double-headed axe. “Now, my daughter,” said the old witch, “we will give . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: THE TOMBS OF GUY DEBORD by Jean-Marie Apostolidès, translated by Laure Katsaros and René Kooiker—available this week! “Montaigne had his quotations; I have mine,” Guy Debord claimed in his autobiography, Panégyrique (75). Throughout his work, he made such frequent use of quotation, paraphrase, and literary allusion—at times openly, . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: ON THE QUAY AT SMYRNA by Margot Demopoulos—available this week! From ON THE QUAY AT SMYRNA: “Look for color in the shadows!” Madame La Fleur fanned herself with a workbook on natural light. “Look at the sky until you see!” Penelope sat on a stool facing a . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: TABLE FOR ONE by Yun Ko Eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler—available this week! From TABLE FOR ONE: THE CUSTOMER COMES in alone. The owner is a bit slow-witted and asks, “How many in your party tonight?” This is a family-style barbecue restaurant, though, so you can’t say . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: THE KEEPERS OF THE GHOST BIRD by Jenn Dean—available this week! From THE KEEPERS OF THE GHOST BIRD: From the air, Bermuda resembles a jeweled and pregnant seahorse, hanging by its tail from the Sargasso Sea. Its top and bottom wrap around two ancient volcanic calderas, one . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: “THE LEADER by Nouri Zarrugh-–available this week! From THE LEADER: That last February before the war and the hard years that were to follow it, forty-one years after the Leader’s revolution, Laila woke to the sound of explosions in the street. She sat clutching the blanket, . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the latest Working Titles e-book: “TIME SERVED by Malcolm Garcia–available this week! From Time Served: I heard about Jose Chavez-Alvarez by chance, just after my journalism career crashed with the recession in 2008. I survived five rounds of layoffs at a daily newspaper before the sixth round tagged me. Out of . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the eight Working Titles e-book: “Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana by Bruce Laurie–available this week! From “Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: This essay offers additional insight into the motivations of comparatively ordinary soldiers–two men whose Civil War stories have never been told in full. Henry S. Gere and . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the sixth Working Titles e-book:Just Another Jihadi Jane: A Novel Excerpt by Tabish Khair—available now! From Just Another Jihadi Jane: DON’T ASK ME for too many details. The devil is in the details, they say. Well, the police are there too, and the antiterror squad. There is death in the . . .
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The Massachusetts Review presents the seventh Working Titles e-book: Ambrosia by Lee Upton–available this week! From Ambrosia: IN MY EARLY CHILDHOOD, the people I loved most in the world made sure that I saw a silver tree. I remember taking a giant breath and then swallowing the sight of that tree so that it would never . . .
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