THE LITERARY REVIEW

How To Read Music

VOL. 53 | NO. 03


  • POETRY
  • Judy Rowe Michaels
  • the birds that night

  • A.P. Sullivan
  • Opus Contra Naturum; Sixth Epistle of the Virtual Apostle; Painted Walls of Mexico Calendar; So Dear, What Then Do You Think’s Happening in the Painting?

  • Nicholas Samaras
  • Psalm for the Song and the Singing; The Kidnapped Child Learns the Fundamental Structures of Music Theory

  • Dan Gutstein
  • For evening; One train pushes second train

  • Daneen Wardrop
  • A Walk Is a Way Not To Ask; A Balcony for Elegy; Bekos; Speak to Wish

  • Nina Soifer
  • To the Writer on the Elevator

  • DENMARK
  • Jørgen Leth
  • Martin Aitken, translator
  • Boredom: Seven poems around a theme

  • Maxine Patroni
  • The Problem of Describing Unrequited Love; A Poem about Wind

  • Peter J. Cooley
  • Rijksmuseum: Poem One; Caravaggio, “The Supper at Emmaus,” The National Gallery, London

  • Laura McCullough
  • Sometimes I Ache for Disambiguation; Women and the Syntactical World; God Is Queer

  • James Richardson
  • The Stars in Order Of

  • Robert Carnevale
  • Woodgrain; Snow on Snow; Nothing To Say

  • Kelly Cherry
  • What the poet wishes
    to say

  • FICTION
  • Percival Everett
  • Confluence

  • MEXICO
  • Elena Poniatowska
  • George Henson, translator
  • Chocolate

  • Noah Elliot Blake
  • How Saying Is Sometimes Saying All Is Right in This Universe; A Moment of Genius; Our Father’s Brain; You May Tell the Story of Your Aunt’s Death

  • Kelly Luce
  • Rooey
  • Polly Buckingham
  • Monster Movie

  • Alex Stein
  • Blackberry Thickets: A Conversation with Josan; The Mundane, the Glorious, the Cat Familiar: A Conversation with Katy Byrd

  • Rachel Swearingen
  • Woman in Blue

  • John Oliver Hodges
  • Troutsky’s Parade

  • Aaron Shulman
  • Guide to the Boulevard of Foreseeable Museums

  • ITALY
  • Marco Candida
  • Elizabeth Harris, translator
  • Dream Diary

  • ESSAY
  • Alex Abramovich
  • Too Far Gone?

  • Katherine Lien Chariott
  • Daughters Made of Dust ‹Collateral Damage›

  • Chip Livingston
  • Trashing Andy Warhol

  • BOOKS
  • Thomas E. Kennedy
  • In the Company of Angels
  • By Andrew McKay

  • Gilbert Sorrentino
  • The Abyss of Human Illusion
  • By Jeff Bursey

  • Alina Bronsky
  • Broken Glass Park
  • By Marion Wyce

  • Mary Jo Bang
  • The Bride of E
  • Louise Glück
  • A Village Life
  • By Renée Ashley

  • Maurya Simon
  • The Raindrop’s Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome and St. Paula, A Novel in Verse
  • By Paul-Victor Winters

  • Maile Chapman
  • Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto
  • By Jody Handerson

  • Anne Carson
  • Nox
  • By Ted Hamilton

  • Tess Gallagher
  • The Man from Kinvara
  • By Abigail Deutsch

  • The Shortlist

  • INTERVIEW
  • Minna Proctor
  • Interview with
    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

  • CONTRIBUTORS