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Kimonos

Essay by Kate Kimball

I wanted to leave.

At fourteen, I had decided that I was tired of blending in with the clean-cut white Mormons in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I decided the perfect place to go was Nairobi, Kenya.  I had voraciously read …

Breakfast with Hatti

Essay by Heather Campbell Grimes

There was a rip on the red vinyl of the booth at the restaurant. It appeared to swell like a scar as the foam viscera pushed its way out, in spite of an impotent piece of duct tape that barely …

Dream DNA: Personal Mythology and the Narrative Elements of Taemong

Essay by Loren Goodman

While taemong remain part of a vibrant culture of dreaming in Korea, some suggest that the tradition is diminishing in importance. What follows draws from five years of ethnographic research (collecting taemong) and practice (interview, transcription, illumination, analysis) in the …

States of Emergency

43, Essay by Lynnda Wardle

This is the year that people will talk about
This is the year that people will be silent about
The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die.
The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky
…

Wild Bikini

Essay by Bonnie Lykes

By the river, the Verde, in the extra hot days when the mesquite was lush with airborne pepper, I saw Shandy B. hitchhike on the interstate in a wild bikini. It had ties on the hips and a big, gold …

Atlantis

Essay by Dan Beachy-Quick

Once upon a time a great philosopher thought the city should be structured as is the soul: reason governing spirit governing appetite. I always imagined it like a pyramid of three parts, each section rotating at its own speed according …

Open Points

Essay by Tom Sentner

The summer I spent working for the Kankakee Valley rural electrical cooperative, the Midwest saw temperatures in the 90’s arrive in early May and last well into September. Rain was scarce and I watched the corn and soybeans struggle in …

Learning to Swim

Essay by Wendy A. Gaudin

My mother never learned how to swim. My sisters and I spent our summers in the pool, sometimes with our friends who didn’t need swim caps because the water didn’t curl their hair, and sometimes with our city cousins who …

Introducing Issue 43: This Hustle Is Not Your Grandpa’s African Lit

43, Essay, New Issue by Mukoma Wa Ngugi & Laura T. Murphy

When African literature is published in the West, it is all too often realist, in English, and in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental poetry, satire, and political allegory all find expression in Africa, …

A Snippet of the Matter: The Literary Cosmogony of Malcolm de Chazal (Mauritius)

Essay by Lawrence Lenhart

1.

One story goes: Malcolm de Chazal, hoping for just a minute’s reprieve from a friend’s dull soiree, a gulp of fresh air, stumbled out onto the wrap-around veranda and, upon turning the corner, found himself shadowing a young girl, …

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Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Iran

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New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

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