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Fall is upon us, and with it comes our latest issue!! 🎃🍁
Featuring debut author Jahanara Ahmad, previous contributors Shams Mazen Rajab, Robert Pastore, & Nicholas Wong, art from Camille Turner, & two new performance pieces!
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Please join us, M.E. O’Brien, Jina B. Kim, and Eman Abdelhadi tomorrow night at Smith College to discuss EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!
Celebrating #IndigenousPeoplesDay with a look back at our 2020 issue, "A Gathering of Native Voices." MR remains as committed to seeing more Indigenous voices in literature as ever. Check out the introduction here and order a copy here: massreview.org/issue/volume-…
And check out our supplementary website that features more from our contributors as well as links to Indigenous resources: native-voices.com/
"I wanted the speculative aspect to be a vehicle for the story, but not be what mattered about the story."
KEVIN D. JORDAN for our latest interview--available to read or listen to!
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"Before October 7, the oppression of Palestinians under Israel’s illegal occupation was the extent of my knowledge. Now I understand that knowledge without action is complicity." - @willathewisp for @MassReview
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Congrats to all the longlist winners, including MR contributors Batool Abu Akleen and Robin Myers!
Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026!
The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir.
For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6
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Join us and @InterlinkBooks on October 20th at UMass to launch and discuss Sami al-Ajrami and Anna Lombardi's new book, THE KEYS TO MY HOUSE: A GAZA DIARY, translated by Jim Hicks and Anna Botta.
And, read our former Executive Editor Jim Hicks's piece about the book and the politics of translation:
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October means our reading period is open for the year! Check out our category-specific guidelines and submit online. We can't wait to read your work!!
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"The images in the poem are raw and dark, almost like a nightmare or a suspense film."
#Poet and #translator Anna Yin on the work of Yen Ai-Lin, starting a literary magazine that featured both Chinese and Canadian writers, and more! massreview.org/2026/09/29/in…
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New story in @MassReview that invokes a song I had forgotten turns 40 this year. Yo @vurnt22
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"We memorize the names of villages we have never seen as though they are part of our bloodstream. We love homes we never lived in, but inhabit through the portal of our grandparents’ love for them." - Asma Abu Hasanein, 'Portal of Return' @MassReview
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"The key bears testimony to homes once full of life, and to families who left believing they would come back within days."
Asma Abu Hasanein on the #Palestine villages left behind, and the portals to the past that still live on, for our #PublicAffairs: massreview.org/2026/09/18/po…
Pieces from M. E. O'Brien, Sati Mookherjee, Jaye Kranz, Shara McCallum, Kevin D. Jordan, and Morteza Barzegar (transl. by AJ Javaheri) are available to read in-full online:
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"Some form of natural chaos that batters you from all sides, leaving destruction far worse than you planned for."
#Writer Emily Wojcik looks at Lorraine Boissoneault's hybrid memoir, BODY WEATHER, for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2026/09/09/st…
"So let’s honor the workers so deft/ From whose hands we enjoy our beer drafts./ For without laboring,/ There’s indeed no fine thing."
Marsha Bryant shares some #LaborDay brew reviews in honor of her Granddad Henry. Cheers to the Workers! massreview.org/2026/09/03/be…
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"I’m an octogenarian child trying to embrace my second childhood: leading with imagination, as children do."
Joan Cambridge-Mayfield on place and presence, alongside Jeremy Jacob Peretz on their "crazy quilt" poetry practice, for our #interviews series: massreview.org/2026/09/01/in…
ALT Author photos of Joan Cambridge-Mayfield, a Black woman with grey hair, a red tie-dye shirt, and pointing her finger at the camera, and Jeremy Jacob Peretz, a Black man wearing glasses, a blue shirt, and a grey knit hat.
"You would hear this onslaught of language going and going and going. And you’d realize this is what our culture is: these songs, these words, this language."
Patricia Waters on the language of #Tennessee and Thomas Hardy, in our interview with the #poet: massreview.org/2026/08/25/in…
