THE LITERARY REVIEW

The Worst Team
Money Can Buy

VOL. 53 | NO. 04


  • POETRY
  • James Richardson
  • Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays from Vectors 3.0

  • Mariana Toscas
  • The Vestal Virgin Cornelia on Ortho Tri-Cyclin;Sodomy; The Butcher’s Daughter; A Penny for a Needle; Girls Like Us

  • Benjamin Paloff
  • Identity and Difference; Difference and Repetition; Repetition/Fear and Trembling

  • Peter E. Murphy
  • Aspirin; Federal Reserve;To Kill an Albatross

  • IRELAND
  • Eamon Grennan
  • Collage with Helicopter, Cottage, Drowned Man; Conflagration Revisited; Going Back; Splitting Instant

  • Jim Daniels
  • Sweating It Out; Losing the License; Sinking the Cigarette Boat, Miami

  • Scott Withiam
  • Prophecy; Sweet William; World Retrieval

  • Kelli Russell Agodon
  • She Says What an Amazing Lamp; Large Optimistic Bowl; The Gynecologist Imagines Another Life

  • SLOVENIA
  • Tomaž Šalamun
  • Michael Thomas Taren, translator
  • The Longing for Madness; Miners; Eagle, Squirrel, Doe; 12 October 1980

  • Weston Cutter
  • Flinch; Exposure to Various Flow

  • Doug Ramspeck
  • Comfortable Life; Gorgeous Light; Memorabilia; The History of Other Lives

  • Padma Thornlyre
  • Mavka #14; Mavka #30; Mavka #38

  • Thomas Reiter
  • Word Problems; Souvenir

  • FICTION
  • M.A. Melnick
  • Obediently Yours

  • Jason Lee Brown
  • Big Cowboy
  • Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
  • Like Kissing Your Sister

  • Norman Simon
  • ESPN

  • R.A. Allen
  • Monday Burning

  • CHILE
  • Lina Meruane
  • Bernadette Walker, translator
  • False Steps

  • Mike Valente
  • Solitude

  • ESSAY
  • M. Eileen Cronin
  • The Hanger Artificial Limb Company

  • Eli Rosenberg
  • So It Goes

  • INTERVIEW
  • David Shields, Paul Muldoon, Kurt Andersen, Cole Swenson, Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Tom Sleigh, Victor LaValle, Martha McPhee,
  • The Money Question

  • BOOKS
  • Ana Maria Spagna
  • Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey
  • By Ann Beman

  • Carmine Abate
  • The Homecoming Party
  • By Marion Wyce

  • Paul Guest
  • One More Theory about Happiness: A Memoir
  • Alex Lemon
  • Happy: A Memoir
  • By Renée Ashley

  • Bei Dao
  • The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems
  • By Andrew McKay

  • Alejandro Zambra
  • The Private Lives of Trees
  • By Ruth Curry

  • Neil LaBute
  • Filthy Talk for Troubled Times
  • By Jody Handerson

  • The Shortlist

  • Keith Waldrop
  • Several Gravities
  • By Matthew Gagnon

  • CONTRIBUTORS