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September 2, 2008
This week's poem is "The Bandh" by Lynn Aarti Chandhok, which appeared in TMR 28:3 (2005). Lynn Chandhok's first book, The View from Zero Bridge, won the 2006 Philip Levine Prize and was published by Anhinga Press in October 2007. In addition to The Missouri Review, her poetry has appeared widely in journals including The New Republic, Tin House, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, and Prairie Schooner. A limited edition letter-press chapbook, Picking the Flowers, was published by Aralia Press in 2007.
Science Fiction
From start to finish, David Ohle's "'06" seems set in a familiar landscape, but one is immediately at a loss to account for that familiarity. For only in the sense that its characters speak English and gradually reveal themselves to be unmistakably human does this tale, at first glance, retain any vestige of a known reality. But Ohle's scope is broad, and on the whole satirical, giving us leeway to read parallels between the social structures we know and the social warps and fissures we find on the page. "‘06" belongs to that select group of highly literate science fiction stories that are able, miraculously, to speak to us about our lives in our own language on wildly unpredictable and fantastic terms.
September 6th, 2008 by Dustin
Bad news this week for author Stephanie Meyer, who had previously distributed a few rough copies of the manuscript of her latest novel, Midnight Sun, and was disappointed to learn that … bum bum BUM! — you guessed it — somebody put one on the Internet.
The novel would have been the last installment of Meyer’s Twilight series, which, as far as I [...]
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September 4th, 2008 by The Missouri Review
Welcome to a brand new feature of our blog, our List of the Week. This week, our staff would like to share some of the books they read over the summer of 2008. We welcome our readers’ own recommendations and reactions in the comments below!
1. Joan Acocella, 28 artists and two Saints
Joan Acocella’s collection features essays about writers, dancers, and saints which were [...]
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August 29th, 2008 by Dedra
Now that the Olympics are over and Michael Phelps with his eight gold medals is off on a victory lap of TV talkshows (look for him on SNL this weekend), we can take time to consider the proper pronunciation of the city “Beijing.”
In her blog “The Word” from The Boston Globe, Jan Freeman, takes on [...]
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