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“This epistolary essay felt risky to write, and not just because of the challenges I mention in the opening paragraphs. Inviting readers into any room of your life can suck some of the energy…    read more

Peter Selgin’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winning essay appeared in TMR 35:1. Of this delectable piece on memory and nostalgia, Selgin says, “Unlike many writers, my memory isn’t strong.…    read more

  Melissa Yancy’s story “Consider this Case” explores the fraught relationship between a gay fetal surgeon and his terminally ill father. It was selected as our Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’…    read more

“A service was needed, and we were willing to provide it,” says the unnamed female narrator of “Hum.” As the husband and wife protagonists embark on an assignment that amounts…    read more

In “The Dreamers,” Jonathan Fink takes a hard look at the controversial practice of fracking and its effects on the west-Texas city of Midland. The essay emerged as Fink’s own…    read more

In this account of her girlhood in the early 1970s, Patricia Bjorklund confirms that ideological and political divides are nothing new in American culture. “U.S. and Them, 1971” is a…    read more