Who have been the most influential writers in your life? The most influential stories/collections? What’s been inspiring you lately?Lately, I have been running more consistently. This is really my cordoned off time, where all I have are my body, my thoughts, and no obligations to others. After graduate school when I began . . .
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Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (61.2, 65.2)’s book of poems Boys Behind Glass (featuring art by Jenny Walton) came out in March from Texas Review Press. Adam Scheffler (54.1)’s critical book on James Wright, So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright, came out in May from LSU . . .
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Crew, at “her tree” on the farm, after her dad’s death. I’m interested in how “Feast: Fruits of the Land” came to exist. How did you decide on the format (namely: the altered sonnet structure, and the beginnings of passages picking up the preceding last lines)? This piece is one “course” of . . .
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On Gaza’s beach, a young girl kneels beside a sand turtle she shaped with her hands and decorated with seashells. All photographs by Shams Mazen Rajab. Every day, thousands of children wake in tents instead of homes, stand in lines for water instead of classrooms. Play has become a rare luxury, and . . .
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Editor’s note: When invited to participate in our interview series, Mathew Magro-Fry (author of “The Missing Pieces” from our Summer 2026 issue) offered to write a creative nonfiction piece on the relationship between roadtrips and his writing process: Just off the freeway between Palm Springs and San Bernardino, a Brontosaurus and a . . .
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Review of Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters (Little A, New York, 2025) Yes, you can go home again, but you might revert to the same person you were when you first decided to leave. Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters is a compelling examination of a daughter’s long-held resentment and fear of disappointing a parent, . . .
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Tell us about your relationship to writing. My relationship to writing began by being a voracious reader. I had a pivotal fourth grade teacher who instilled in me a practice of continuously engaging with books and reflecting on them after completion by submitting book reports. That same teacher also gave her students . . .
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His guests are still drinking, and the smoke from his meat fire rises, on this windless evening, straight up into the trees. – John Cheever, “O Youth and Beauty!” Are you filling your grill? Tis the seasonFor hanging outdoors under trees onA warm, sunny dayWith a brewski arrayand a comfortable lawn chair . . .
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This is an edited transcription of a larger recorded conversation between Kelsi Vanada and Emilio Jurado Naón, available in full below. Vanada is the translator, and Naón the author, of the novel Agustina Paz, an excerpt of which is featured in our Summer 2026 issue. Readings from the novel excerpt happen in . . .
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Photo credit: Chukwunonso Nwanze. On a visit to Ellis Island, New York, in 2007. At the height of European immigration, twelve million people passed through this hall with a new country’s name waiting for them. I arrived differently—by plane, by choice, by the long aftermath of a history that brought some here without . . .
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