After Jennifer S. Cheng 1: the sea captured in a glass 2: a homophone for having enough for leftovers, a synonym for abundance 3: the fish, who have already forgotten you. It’s not personal 4: where memory fails, there’s still imagining 5: you. Not as an ocean but outside 6: glass and/or acrylic
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The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a dystopia.
Winner of the EXTINCTION Essay Contest, selected by Lacy M. Johnson
CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to
Sonora Review intern Rachel Sargent interviews Ben Harper, a 2010 University of Arizona graduate and the Co-Founder and Editor of The Topaz Review, an online arts magazine that features original submissions in
At this year’s AWP Conference & Bookfair in Seattle (2014), I had the pleasure of attending the panel: Fabulist Fiction for a Hot Planet! with Matt Bell, Alexander Lumans, Tessa Mellas, Christian
by Mike Coakley For some time now, I’ve been hungrily purchasing essay collections. I used to avoid them; when an undergraduate professor of mine assigned pieces from Philip Lopate’s The Art of
Sonora Review co-editor Laura I. Miller interviews Michael J. Henry, Executive Director of Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver, CO, where he also teaches poetry and memoir and essay workshops. He’s the author of
Now that Iʼm in bars surrounded by e-cigarette plumes rather than chain- ganging Marlboro smoke, observing bored chicks in matching spiked leather heels to their spiked leather jackets from H&M, and folks
Animal Collection – I grasp for words to describe it. It is modern. It is postmodern. It is fables. It is magical realism. It is Saundersesque. It is Carveresque. It is flash
All right, I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m a sucker for super hero flicks. I grew up in the era of Nickelodeon’s short-lived The Secret World of Alex Mack, about
Charles Alexander’s extensive bio is easy to look up. His immense humanity, both as a writer, artist and person, requires face time to absorb. Our short interview questions where and how Alexander
Alissa Nutting’s debut short-story collection, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls — winner of the Sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction and finalist for the Eric Hoffner Montaigne Medal for Thought-Provoking Texts
The beginning of Anthropologies feels like something you’ve remembered before—a frail mother recounts stories for a middle-aged daughter. But then, the daughter is 18, and she wears bell bottoms and a black