Our Summer issue is here—featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann, Chigozie Obioma, and Daisy Hildyard, poetry by Frederick Seidel and Hannah Piette, art by Hadi Falapishi and Andrew Kuo, a cover by Alex Da Corte, and more. Follow the link in our bio to subscribe and read issue no. 256. https://t.co/FfLIM1vNCg
“Two old objectivists walk into a bar
With them, the ‘ragged remains of rain.’”
Read “from ‘Adamant!’" by Jean Day in our new Summer issue. https://t.co/v0WaIZ0cgd
“It is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one, then you are better off alone. But there are editors so rare and so important that they are worth searching for, and you always know when you have one.” —Toni Morrison https://t.co/hp2442QMgH
“It became clear to him that though they had been here only a week, a catastrophe big enough to swallow a lifetime had befallen them.” From Chigozie Obioma’s “The Yellow Leaf” in our new Summer issue.
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“Basketball is like this, too. Good players, even decent players, have at least one move that they know will bail them out of a bad situation.”
From Hanif Abdurraqib’s (@NifMuhammad) “On One-On-One.”
“I want the books I write to be quite different, to be the kind of writing that only someone from the countryside could have come up with. Wherever I find the seed for a story, I try to plant it in familiar soil. Something from the countryside can’t be planted in Beijing.”
From our Art of Fiction interview with Yan Lianke in our new Summer issue. https://t.co/s1Pqj4uYY4
“If you start with a rule and then break the rule, it’s possible to surprise yourself. I like that the rule is there for me to mess with. ”
From new our Art of Poetry interview with Harryette Mullen.
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In “The Cascades,” by the novelist and essayist Daniel Saldaña París, translated from the Spanish by Cristóbal Riego, two teenagers make a trip to a campsite in southeastern Mexico and, after hitching a ride from a hearse driver, find the thrill of their new freedom quickly shading into something darker. https://t.co/x7GP0r9Wo6
“Nijinsky’s face layered in makeup became an apt figure for the poem I wanted to write—one in which a ‘civilian face’ could be recognized only through its effacement.” Read Hannah Piette’s Making of a Poem, out today on our website. https://t.co/cBZHlMJBv8
“I hear men marching. Trump Trump Trump Trump,
It’s jailtime. I’m frightened.
There’s nothing to sing except a song
Because it won’t be long.”
From “Deadheads in the Dark” by Frederick Seidel in our new Summer issue. https://t.co/aQIwdkHG6e
“Men together wrecking New York, filling it with entrepreneurs, influencers, suburbanites, personal trainers, mindfulness nitwits, selfie-takers, self-improvers, and food-avoiders. What are they doing in New York?” From “MT” by Lucy Ellmann in our new Summer issue.
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“In an apt omen of things to come, the first prefight press conference for UFC Freedom 250 opened with an AI-generated promotional video and ended with an unplanned altercation.” https://t.co/ROAnOYLvYz
“Those dogs are mad, he said. Perfect company for you. They seem fine during the day, but at night their eyes glow red and they scrabble at the ground like they’re trying to tunnel into it.”
From “God's Arrow” by Shuang Xuetao in our new Summer issue. https://t.co/hD3hPBC4Jl
“I personally didn’t think there was anything anti-war in writing about how an individual might be terrified of battle. I was really writing about my own fear.”
From our Art of Fiction interview with Yan Lianke. https://t.co/Ofizi8zL8d
“My father wasn’t insistent about me finishing college at the time. He knew that Hemingway and Faulkner didn’t go.” —Jim Harrison https://t.co/js0IHxUm9Y
We at the Review mourn the loss of David Hockney, who died this week at the age of eighty-eight. In memory of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his early “Notes for Illustrations: Grimm’s Fairy Tales” from the archive. https://t.co/D6prCDWbMD
The writer Max Ross on a mysterious atlas in his father’s book collection, a one-of-a-kind map of an imagined universe described in glyphs the artist Timothy Ely invented from “his studies of ciphers, cryptographs, hieroglyphs, calligraphy, alchemy, Kabbalah, UFO communications in sci-fi novels, and other synthetic languages.” https://t.co/1y45lmvKid