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The Literary Review: Manifest Destiny

Lawrence Venuti

Paul Ruffin

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Kelly, Cherry

Nina Berberova

Pablo-neruda

Illan Stavans

R.A. Allen

Michiah Bay Gault

R. G. Evans

Clea Roberts

Erica McAlpine

A.K. Scipioni

David McGlynn

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Read remarkable fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversation about literature in the Summer 2010 issue of The Literary Review, an international quarterly publishing astonishing writing since the middle of the last century. The Worst Team Money Could Buy features dreadful tales of hapless efforts, vexed ambitions, and impossible odds. Prosthetic legs, hot wings, spontaneous combustion, doppelgangers, spam, incest, the economy, aphorisms, ESPN, and an albatross.

The Literary Review: The Worst Team Money Could Buy

Lina Meruane

James Richardson

Minna Proctor

Tomaž Šalamun

Eamon Grennan

Mariana Toscas

Benjamin Paloff

Scott Withiam

Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis

M. Eileen Cronin

Kurt Andersen

Cole Swenson

Tom Sleigh

Victor LaValle

Read remarkable new fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversations about literature in the Winter 2011 issue of The Literary Review, publishing international work quarterly since 1957. Refrigerator Mothers looks at the completely incomprehensible psychological archetypes and staggered creative momentum of motherhood, as well as outdated theories of psychosis.

The Literary Review: Refrigerator Mothers

Buddhadeva Bose

Jessie van Eerden

JENNY OFFILL

Rebecca Wolff

James Scudamore

Kelli Russell Agodon

Charles Wyatt

Line-Maria Lang

Matt Bell

Ceridwen Morris

Jena Salon

The Literary Review: Emo, Meet Hole

John Kinsella

CHARLES RAFFERTY

Michael Morse

Michael Homolka

Alex Lemon

Susanne Kort

Paul-Victor Winters

Amanda Hempel

Adam Vines

Christine Sneed

Katherine Lien Chariott

Cam Terwilliger

John Minichillo

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The Literary Review is a beautifully designed literary quarterly featuring some of the best international writers of our generation. Content includes short stories, poems, essays, belle lettres and book commentary, as well as author interviews. The Literary Review is one of the hippest literary magazines in the country that is also over half a century old. The Rat's Nest issue features an exquisite corpse by 17 famous poets, such as Tom Sleigh, Meghan O'Rourke, James Richardson, Kelly Cherry, Jeffrey Yang, Robert Polito, Cole Swenson, and other luminaries who agreed to play games with poetry for just once. Stories about literary intrigue and the indie music scene in Cambridge, collaboration, misplaced immigrants, murder in Portugal, love, divorce, cancer. Poems about the gallows, the tides, grief, the star nose mole, and zombies.

The Literary Review: The Rat's Nest

Literature & Fiction

Alex Stein

Kathleen Graber

Judith Skillman

James Capozzi

Craig Morgan Teicher

Henry Israeli

Priscilla Becker

Tamas Dobozy

Elahzar Rao

Chris Tarry

Zachary Lazar

Laura Eve Engel

Adam Peterson

Kevin Lutz

Myronn Hardy

Laurie Lamon

United States

The Literary Review is a sleek literary magazine featuring the best international writers of our generation. Every issue includes short stories, poems, essays, belle lettres and book commentary, as well as author interviews. The Literary Review is one of the hippest literary journals in the country and one of the oldest. No dust gathers here. The Lives of the Saints has amazing new poetry and fiction some of it is even about sainthood, or goodness. There are martyrs and heroes, animals who would be deities, cats, horses, pigs, a blueprint for beatification, collection agents, and someone who can stop time.

The Literary Review: The Lives of the Saints

Sherman Alexie

Juán Rulfo

Danielle Blau

Steve Bradbury

Lee Upton

Cody Todd

Derek Henderson

Christian Nagle

Ellen Adams

Eric Barnes

Margaret Hermes

Adam Wilson

Molly Reid

James Allardice

Alex Cigale

Rene Steinke

Lydia Millet

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