America's premiere literary quarterly explores themes of domination, politics, the public mind, the literary sensibility, and where imagination locks horns with free will. There are poems, stories, essays, gun shows, tennis matches, bad diets, and blizzards. Read curiously. Read bravely. Read more TLR.

The Literary Review: Manifest Destiny

Lawrence Venuti

Paul Ruffin

The Literary Review

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at the completely incomprehensible psychological archetypes and staggered creative momentum of motherhood, as well as outdated theories of psychosis.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 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

A different kind of tribute to a writer we love. John Le Carre novels are the literary equivalent of a great heist movie sophisticated, real world, overpopulated with anti-heroes who live or die by the puzzle. They have intrigue, treachery, politics, drinking, smoking, exotic locations, rambling plots, spies, double agents... all the sorts of stuff you never find in a literary magazine. The mystery is: What will you find in this issue of TLR? Read bravely.

The Literary Review: John Le Carré

Michael Homolka

Sergio Pitol

TLR The Literary Review

Jennifer Acker

Jean-Paul Clébert

Marosa Di Giorgio

Edward Gauvin

Karl Harshbarger

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Jeannine Marie Pitas

Maya Catherine Popa

Anjali Sachedeva

J.R. Toriseva

Tim Waldron

Retreat and regroup; hide, wait, watch, plan your next move. Stay alive. Fight or flight leads directly into the heart of the literary nervous system. Captivating work from Tanya Jacob Knox, Dylan Landis, Ashraf Zaghal, Idra Novey, Ed Taylor... Just to name a few. We hope you enjoy this issue and that, in some way, it brings out the fight in you. What will you find in this issue of TLR? Everything you didn't know you should read. TLR: Read bravely.

The Literary Review: Fight

Michael Bazzett

John Kinsella

Rachel McKibbens

Christine Sneed

Yi, Sang

Dan Bevacqua

Colin Fleming

Joey De Jesus

Ryan Black

The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "A Satire to Decay" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist, playwright, and professor of English, proposes a solution to a riddle that has frustrated scholars and poets alike. Arguing that the Sonnets are not just a "higgledy piggledy" collection of poems but were put in order by Shakespeare himself, and drawing on the insights of several of the Sonnets' foremost contemporary scholars, Mirsky examines the Sonnets poem by poem to ask what is the story of the whole. Mirsky takes Shakespeare at his own word in Sonnet 100, where the poet, tongue in cheek, advises his lover to regard "time's spoils"–in this case, "any wrinkle graven" in his cheek–as but "a satire to decay." The comfort is obviously double-edged, but it can also be read as a mirror of Shakespeare's "satire" on himself, as if to praise his own wrinkles, and reflects the poet's intention in assembling the Sonnets to satirize the playwright's own "decay" as a man and a lover. In a parody of sonnet sequences written by his fellow poets Spenser and Daniel, Shakespeare's mordant wit conceals a bitter laugh at his own romantic life. The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets demonstrates the playwright's wish to capture the drama of the sexual betrayal as he experienced it in a triangle of friendship and eroticism with a man and a woman. It is a plot, however, that the playwright does not want to advertise too widely and conceals in the 1609 Quarto from all but a very few. Despite Shakespeare's moments of despair at his male friend's betrayal and the poet's cursing at the sexual promiscuity of the so-called Dark Lady, The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets sees the whole as a "satire" by Shakespeare and, particularly when read with the poem that accompanied it in the 1609 printing, "A Lover's Complaint," as a laughing meditation on the irrepressible joy of sexual life

The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: 'A Satire to Decay'

Mirsky, Mark Jay

Humor & Satire

The conversation, sometimes heated, about the influence of Christianity on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien has a long history. What has been lacking is a forum for a civilized discussion about the topic, as well as a chronological overview of the major arguments and themes that have engaged scholars about the impact of Christianity on Tolkien's oeuvre, with particular reference to The Lord of the Rings. The Ring and the Cross addresses these two needs through an articulate and authoritative analyses of Tolkien's Roman Catholicism and the role it plays in understanding his writings. The volume's contributors deftly explain the kinds of interpretations put forward and evidence marshaled when arguing for or against religious influence. The Ring and the Cross invites readers to draw their own conclusions about a subject that has fascinated Tolkien enthusiasts since the publication of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.

The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Lord of the Rings

British & Irish

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