THE LITERARY REVIEW

The Rogue Idea

VOL. 54 | NO. 02


  • POETRY
  • Peter Shippy
  • The twins; The ennead; Our posthumous lives; The wreckage of the dark, a postscript

  • William Zander
  • Not My Own Man; Torn Apart

  • Caleb Curtiss
  • Swans as a Scourge; Peripeteia in Goltzius’s Icarus; Cancer Field

  • POLAND
  • Krzysztof Jaworski
  • Benjamin Paloff, translator
  • Don Quixote Meets Mussolini and Explains How There Isn’t Much Point to Fixing the World; Letters to U.M.; Go Ask Your Eva Brauns How They Like Austria; That Troubling Look of Sadness in the Sunken Eyes of Our Hero

  • Michela Costello
  • How To Cook Curry; We Are Not Noise

  • MEXICO
  • Tedi López Mills
  • Wendy Burk, translator
  • A; (CH); G

  • Geoffrey Nutter
  • Mister Greenglass; Shadow Government; The Quiet Parable

  • Steven Heighton
  • Thar He; A Monsoon Suicide; Collision

  • Michael Z Murphy
  • Why Did You Make That Left Turn?

  • Gary Fincke
  • Swarms; News; The Fear Warehouse

  • Daniel Wolff
  • Canvasback; Horned Grebe; Ice Is Water Under Another Name; Thaw; Red-Tailed Hawk

  • FICTION
  • Sean McConnell
  • The Evolution Rapist

  • GERMANY
  • Judith Hermann
  • Margot Bettauer Dembo, translator
  • Misha

  • ISRAEL
  • Yoram Kaniuk
  • Anthony Berris, translator
  • Excerpt from Life on Sandpaper

  • AUSTRALIA
  • John Kinsella
  • The Cartesian Diver
  • Joyce Hinnefeld
  • Benedicta, or A Guide to the Artist’s Résumé

  • Christopher Sorrentino
  • Unhappy Families

  • Jesse Goolsby
  • Resurrecting a Body Half

  • ESSAY
  • Michael Copperman
  • Want

  • INTERVIEW
  • Alex Stein
  • Relation to the Absolute: A Conversation with H.L. Hix

  • BOOKS
  • Renée Ashley
  • A Rogue Idea

  • Mathias Énard
  • Zone
  • By Ruth Curry

  • The Shortlist

  • Elyse Fenton
  • Clamor
  • By Paul-Victor Winters

  • Ruth Franklin
  • A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truths in Holocaust Fiction
  • By Anne Baney

  • The Shortlist

  • Robert Steiner
  • Negative Space
  • By John King

  • Galsan Tschinag
  • The Gray Earth
  • By Anne McPeak

  • Christian Wiman
  • Every Riven Thing: Poems
  • By Ryan Romine

  • Valerie Trueblood
  • Marry or Burn
  • By Marion Wyce

  • Tina May Hall
  • The Physics of Imaginary Objects
  • By Cassie Hay

  • Juan José Saer
  • The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
  • By Suzanne Marie Hopcroft

  • CONTRIBUTORS