Subscribers receive two issues a year; new subscribers will receive Issue Three (Autumn 2026) and Issue Four (Spring 2027).
Our third issue features work from Rick Moody, Philip Traylen, Joy Williams, Myles Zavelo, Keri Miller, Corey Miller, Matthew Gasda, Albertine Clarke, Jack Cuthbertson, Julia Brennan, Sandra Simonds, Evan Grillon, Aaron Barry, Quinn Adikes, Victor Florence, Danny Duffy, Sam Shopp, and more.
From our Third Issue:
KERI MILLER reviews a metafictional play at the Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute
RICK MOODY (Hotels of North America) revists his emails from the indie heyday
JOY WILLIAMS (The Pelican Child): A commonplace book with clippings from AZ and WY
MATTHEW GASDA (Stranger Beauty): The Milquetoast Review staff unionizes summering
COREY MILLER: Four poems about coal mining, the pandemic, and grappling with bitterness
PHILIP TRAYLEN begs for $$ with a prose style that would have made Nietzsche weep lire
ALBERTINE CLARKE (The Body Builders): Revolution leaves NYC in ruins, yet he wants anal?
MYLES ZAVELO: A voice-driven story of a stalker confronted
JACK CUTHBERTSON (The Book Club from Hell): A right-wing rock band controls the world
SANDRA SIMONDS (Burning Oracle): Artic collages made in Svalbard
With stories by JULIA BRENNAN (Hunting Season), VICTOR FLORENCE, QUINN ADIKES, TEEGE BRAUNE, EVAN GRILLON, JG ANNINO, and THEO CIPERSKI
Poems by AARON BARRY (£, flesh), DANNY DUFFY, SAM SHOPP, DANIEL W.K. LEE, ALLISON ARGUMEDO, and MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG
Nonfiction from ELLIOT REED (A Key to Treehouse Living), DIANE MITCHELL, JUSTIN MANLEY, CHARLIE O’LEARY and more
And cover art by TRAVIS MOREHEAD
PLUS, WRITING AND LAW: Letters from a 19th-century German lawyer chastising his bookish son’s Faustian pursuits; a self-represented plaintiff’s quixotic quest to produce the odd-sized booklets required in Supreme Court cases; a son discovers a legal agreement between his parents; and the Archbishop of Canterbury orders the burning of all satires
Our second issue features work from Padgett Powell, Mary Ruefle, Daniel Wilson, Avi Loeb, Michael Chang, Jim Hanas, Noah Kumin, Grace H. Zhou, Charlie Sterchi, Mitchell Galloway, Daisy Cashin, Tom Ianelli, Sam Frank Jr., Zachary Scott, and more.
From our Second Issue:
PADGETT POWELL (author of The Interrogative Mood): Defiant responses to notes from a sensitivity reader hired by his publisher; a cri de coeur for defending literature from bureaucratic censors
MICHAEL CHANG (Things A Bright Boy Can Do): Six new poems on Jimmy Baldwin, performativity, and the interests of the moose
MARY RUEFLE (The Book): A list of whimsical envelope labels used to organize found photos
DANIEL WILSON (@greatbritisharchitecture): A pilgrimage to village churches across Britain
JIM HANAS (Why They Cried): An antonymic translation of a Stevens poem
AVI LOEB (Interstellar): Could we detect a nuclear war on an exoplanet?
SAM FRANK JR.: A gonzo tale of Deadheads and Wrestlemaniacs clashing in Vegas
NOAH KUMIN (Stop All the Clocks): A young man from the Northeast languishes in a mossy Florida college town, contemplating the ‘there there’ of his surroundings and soul
GRACE H. ZHOU (Soil Called a Country): Two healing poems from the mountains of Kyrgyzstan
THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP DEBATE
Poems by the EARL OF OXFORD including accounts from contemporaries;
Historic speculation by MARK TWAIN and HENRY JAMES;
MATTHEW GASDA (Dimes Square and Other Plays) offers a democratic defense of Shakespeare of Stratford; JOHN MORAN notes that Oxfordian themes like pseudonymity, propaganda, and cancellation speak to our time
Our first issue features work from Tony Tulathimutte, Chante Reid, Rick Moody, Amrapali Maitra, Mariana Roa Oliva, Elliot Reed, Susan Cerulean, Axel Void, Zoë Dutka, Kelly Karivalis, Givens Parr, Jeff Horn, Trevor Crown, M. C. Jia, Danny Hoang, Griffin Smith, Emory Johnson, Ava Chickering, Will Penman, and more.
Find it on the shelves at McNally Jackson, Casa Magazines, and elsewhere.
From our First Issue:
ELLIOT REED (author of A Key to Treehouse Living): A fragmented essay on gravity, water, consciousness, and fatherhood during the Asheville floods;
CHANTE REID (Thot): A short story about a prideful filmmaker with an academic agenda shooting a documentary in a Bronx housing complex;
RICK MOODY (Hotels of North America): Ten poems on pleading the fifth, home repairs, and a butterfly refuge along the southern border;
TONY TULATHIMUTTE (Rejection): A thesis on projection, rejection, and abjection; plus the myth of Timagoras and Meles;
AMRAPALI MAITRA: Parvati shops for a new bathtub in a retelling of the birth of Ganesha;
SUSAN CERULEAN (Coming to Pass): On listening to wild plovers along the Gulf of Mexico;
MARIANA ROA OLIVA (Seedlings_:Walk in Time): On internet detritus and petty animals;
and more.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF WRITING
“The Ephemeral Manifesto” calls on writers to resist AI through analog tech;
“Humanitatis Intelligentia Naturae” lists web domains used for AI inference as a textual object;
AI-written haikus summarize daily news.
Our first issue, featuring work from Tony Tulathimutte, Chante Reid, Rick Moody, Amrapali Maitra, Mariana Roa Oliva, Elliot Reed, Susan Cerulean, Axel Void, Zoë Dutka, Kelly Karivalis, Givens Parr, Jeff Horn, Trevor Crown, M. C. Jia, Danny Hoang, Griffin Smith, Emory Johnson, Ava Chickering, Will Penman, and more.