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“At one time or another, I’ve been their daughters and granddaughters, their sisters and sons and fathers,” writes Jennifer Anderson in her essay about the experience of providing “diversional activities”…    read more

This week we are featuring Robert Wrigley’s 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize finalist essay “Nemerov’s Door,” about a spontaneous trip that Wrigley took with his father as a young man…    read more

This week we are featuring Nicole Banas’s 2014 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize finalist essay “Rash,” about being young and under pressure and sharing the trouble of someone else. Nicole Banas…    read more

For the next month we will be featuring some of the past finalists in the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize contest that appeared in our print issues of TMR. To…    read more

  Sophie Beck’s essay “Pinterest for the Apocalypse,” about maker culture and . . . yes . . . the apocalypse, appeared in our winter issue.  Beck, the founding co-editor…    read more

 Alix Ohlin’s short story “Money, Geography, Youth” was published in the winter 2016 issue of the Missouri Review. Ohlin is the author of two novels, The Missing Person and Inside and two collections of…    read more

Nathan Oates’s “Mile Point Road” brings to light the fear that lies in the dark corners of our imaginations. In a narrative paying homage to Stephen King’s The Shining, Oates…    read more

“The Evil Tyrant of Ten Kurk” by Seth Fried depicts the eponymous tyrant in his castle . . . sleeping. Yes, even tyrants need to sleep, eat, and take care…    read more

What if the best way to win an argument was to pull a miniature Noam Chomsky out of your pocket and let him do the talking? Bar banter and speculative…    read more

Rick Bass’ story “An Alcoholic’s Guide to Peru and Chile” is featured in TMR 38.4 and is adapted from his most recent collection of short stories For a Little While, to…    read more