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When I picked up Richard’s first book, Not a Soul But Us, I knew only that it was a story in eighty-four sonnets about a boy and his dog struggling to…    read more

Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book, Accidental Devotions, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2026. Accidental Devotions, a collection dedicated to…    read more

Fall 2025 Missouri Review interns Graham Medric George ’27 and Sofia Louise Ottolini ’27 interviewed Julia Ridley Smith about Sex Romp Gone Wrong, her recent short-story collection, when she visited…    read more

Catherine Arnold is no stranger to silence. She didn’t read until age eleven, and as a painter who experiences synesthesia, she is always looking at words, images, and scenes coded…    read more

“Eighteen People Every Hour” by Dennis McFadden is a moving meditation on memory, death, and desire. First featured in TMR 46.4, McFadden’s story is a portrait not only of decline…    read more

Sara Beth Greene’s “Drifting in 7-Eleven” follows a young woman whose Instagram posts about Tokyo’s surprising convenience-store finds become her life preserver as she drifts through the wreckage of one…    read more

Anne Gimm interviewed Peter Mountford about his collection of short stories, Detonator, published by Four Way Books in September 2025. “Love of Her Life,” a story about a woman who…    read more

TMR intern Haley Schmid interviewed Tate Gieselmann about “Mouse,” a story about a drug addict hustling to pay a debt. First published in TMR issue 47.4 (Winter 2024), the story…    read more

First featured in TMR 47.4, “Mouse” by Tate Gieselmann is about a drug addict hustling to pay a debt. Gieselmann’s character is an inveterate loner with a nihilistic outlook on…    read more

In the following conversation, music writer Adam Sobsey interviews Neko Case about her incandescent new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You (Grand Central Publishing, 2025). Framed…    read more