THE LITERARY REVIEW

Encyclopedia Britannica

VOL. 55 | NO. 02


  • Editor’s Note

  • POETRY
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Encyclopedia Brittany

  • UKRAINE
  • Andrei Krasnyashykh
  • Translated by Tanya Paperny
  • From the Series “Machinations of the Genre”

  • Ian Stone
  • TransArctic Rail Road; Halifrigin; Radcliff IV, Broadsly Waldorff

  • David Georgi
  • New Translations from François Villon’s Testament

  • Mary Jo Bang
  • Dante’s Inferno Canto XXX

  • RUSSIA
  • Polina Barskova
  • Translated by Kathryn Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
  • Evening in Tsarskoe Selo; Summer Physiological Essay: Wanderers; From Mad Vatslav’s Diary

  • Simon Perchik
  • “It must be new here”; “This tree still wet”; “The blood this bandaid vaguely wrings”

  • Cynthia Cruz
  • Coco; Death: The Project; Coco

  • POLAND
  • Miron Białoszewski
  • Translated by Translated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
  • Even If They Take Away My Stove; Girl from the Sticks; The Ballad Of Descending to the Shop; From “Directions to Suspension”

  • John Hoppenthaler
  • Fable with Pekin Ducks; Chiaroscuro

  • C.J. Sage
  • The Gone Is Back; Self Portrait as a Bluebird’s Open Beak; Two Tones

  • Michael Bazzett
  • Report from Beyond; Everywhen; The Body; Thought Grenade

  • TURKEY
  • Ahmet Ada
  • Translated by Ken Fifer and Nesrin Eruysal
  • The Deer; Land; The Sea Once Again; Past the Shore; After the Rain

  • Micah Jon Heatwole
  • November Renderings; Hallelujah; Stop Signs; What Is Game?

  • Renée Ashley
  • On the Humanness of the Humanities

  • Christian Barter
  • Secret Evidence
  • FICTION
  • SLOVENIA
  • Aleš Šteger
  • Translated by Brian Henry
  • Bakeries and Pharmacies

  • Martha Witt
  • The Visit

  • GERMANY
  • Utz Rachowski
  • Translated by Michael Ritterson
  • The Wild Huntsman

  • SYRIA
  • Osama Alomar
  • Selections from All Rights Not Reserved, Tongue Tie, and O Man

  • Hilary Steinitz
  • The Foundations of Social Research

  • Joseph Levens
  • Leaving Paradise

  • C.E. Cardiff
  • The Wayward Daughter

  • Douglas J. Ogurek
  • Felled Evergreens

  • Barret Baumgart
  • Exciting New Opportunities for Tourists

  • Mark Budman
  • Odnoklassniki


  • ESSAY
  • Bryon MacWilliams
  • The Banya Is Holy


  • INTERVIEW
  • Craig Morgan Teicher Interview with Mary Jo Bang


  • BOOKS
  • Mahmoud Darwish
  • In the Presence of Absence
  • By Manu Samriti Chander

  • Milen Ruskov
  • Thrown into Nature
  • By Daniel Reid

  • Martha Collins
  • White Papers
  • By Renée Ashley

  • Bernard Noël
  • The Rest of the Voyage
  • By F. Daniel Rzicznek

  • Pico Iyer
  • The Man Within My Head
  • By Franklin Freeman

  • Kate Northrop
  • Clean
  • By Ryan Romine

  • Kristin Ómarsdóttir
  • Children in Reindeer Woods
  • By Jena Salon

  • Mira Rosenthal
  • The Local World
  • By Callista Buchen

  • Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
  • The Colonel
  • By Matt McGregor

  • The Shortlist

  • CONTRIBUTORS