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An Interview | Diana Reid on Relationships, Morality, and How to Write a...
Diana Reid dared herself to write a novel. She loved reading, so why not try? If she couldn’t write one during the pandemic, then she figured she probably never would. Unlike most of us who resolved...
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Rituals | Martha Schabas
Jason Bentsman, Light Nothing like sadness or anger set in right away when M sat me down one afternoon last February and told me he was moving out of our apartment. The conversation we had after felt...
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The Pocket Book | Natalie Southworth
Irwin Freeman, Scroll I The year I started junior high, I played ringette on Wednesday nights. One of those nights my father told me we had a stop to make before going home. He said he was painting...
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Beer Glass | Joshua Ambre
Andrea Caldarise, Moonglow Cynthia was waiting for him at the baggage claim, carousel five, which as always made Jared think of painted horses. Walking toward her, he felt like he was riding one....
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Interview | Marie-Helene Bertino on Humor, Grief, and the Humanity of...
A girl, a fax machine, a dog, another planet. This is how Marie-Helene Bertino explains the focus of her new novel, Beautyland, which came out last week with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Like all of...
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My Generation | Eugene Stein
Paul Anagnostopoulos, “Meant for Another Dimension” My husband and I met the old fashioned way, at a gay bar in West Hollywood, in the days before Grindr. Carlos is from Uruguay, and to him, a...
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Heartwood | Torsa Ghosal
Kira, “Heartwood 1” Before living inside a giant sequoia tree, Bhumi used to live in a townhouse in Fremont, first with a professor of poetry, and later, with a data engineer. Although she didn’t come...
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The 2023 Brooklyn Review Short Story Prize Winners: This Time It’s Personal
This year’s Brooklyn Review editorial team is thrilled to announce the winner’s the 2023 Short Story Contest: This Time It’s Personal, judged by novelist Ernesto Mestre. We were truly inspired by the...
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A Good Impression | Daniel Barrios
Shelby Heitner, Inkjet print, “Open Wide” One That winter, when I finished grad school and had no money at all, I took a job as a packer at a dental lab. I was young and married and had two babies to...
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Moving On | Matthew Crowe
Sonia Redfern, A 4-Dimensional Curved Universe The first hour driving north they listened to a best of REM compilation CD and traded few words. The freeway became a single carriageway and the suburbs...
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