Quarterly magazine of literature and the arts, founded in 1948. Poetry, fiction, essays, and more.https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mrakttxjec2bOur summer issue is now online! Featuring Pegah Ouji & Rebecca Kilroy, the 1st & 2nd prize winners of our 2025 fiction contest; Antonio Muñoz Molina's diary entries from writing his 2019 novel; poems by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi & Jeffrey Harrison; & more! https://hudsonreview.com/issue/summer-2026/22 Jul 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrakttxjec2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mraknx5crk2bWe are happy to announce the winners of our 2025 fiction contest! Congrats to Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social, who won 1st prize; congrats as well to Rebecca Kilroy, 2nd; Shahriar Shaams, 3rd; and Yara Zgheib, honorable mention. We are so honored to publish their work!22 Jul 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraknx5crk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mqovkvqznc2fKaren Wilkin reviews “William Perehudoff: Boundless Color” at Berry Campbell: 1/4 The works on view explored the resonance of the raw materials of painting, as manipulated by a distinct personality.15 Jul 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqovkvqznc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mqmgeg2yv22iFrom “These Days” by Robert Cording: 1/2 I like to walk with my kind, following the shoreline, one foot in front of the other, as if it were truly a plan to stay alive. What I like most is how we’ve lost all thought of our out-of-shape, misshapen bodies, weighed down by years14 Jul 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmgeg2yv22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mqjuuqkczc2hMark Jarman reviews A Violence by Paula Bohince @princetonupress.bsky.social 1/2 [Bohince] admits, “I’ve held on to // childishness longer than most…” There is a difference between childhood and childishness, and A Violence reminds us of that repeatedly, as much like a lullaby as a prison sentence.13 Jul 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjuuqkczc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mqccrlwk7k2bMarina Harss reviews August Bournonville’s Flower Festival in Genzano @nycballet.bsky.social: 1/5 What struck me most was the way the characters depicted by the two dancers treated each other: the tenderness, the delight in each other’s presence, the warmth.10 Jul 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqccrlwk7k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mq5bk42k2c2iFrom “Bliss,” a short story by Louise Marburg: 1/2 The man keeps shooting and shooting until I think I’ll lose my mind. Then suddenly there’s silence, which is just as disturbing in its way. Don’t move, the toothpaste lady mouths. I nod and close my eyes.08 Jul 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5bk42k2c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mq2sdmitxk26Brooke Allen reviews Becoming Led Zeppelin: 1/4 Some critics have complained that the film skips over the band’s bad behavior…but I appreciated that decision. The movie is about music and only music; and it is music, of course, that makes this band, these men, interesting.07 Jul 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2sdmitxk26https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mpoeeodgik23From “Downpour,” by Jeanne Foster : 1/6 * You never thought “molested.” Then someone used the word. You were not “molested” in that time space, but in this time space you were “molested.” Touched by the pianist in the backseat of the car, your parents up front, father driving.02 Jul 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpoeeodgik23https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mpjayssf722qTom Wilhelmus reviews House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones @riverheadbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Instead of plot, it proceeds (like Flights) by labeled sections with titles like “Dreams,” “Mushroominess,” the names of characters, “Rhubarb”…30 Jun 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjayssf722qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mph5hx64gs2zMichael Thurston on Larry by Michael Haag: 1/5 Many books are luxuries, and it is probably unproductive to wonder whether any book is really necessary. Nevertheless, I finished this biography nagged by the question of why it had been published, especially when it is so obviously unfinished.29 Jun 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mph5hx64gs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mp763dql3k22Karen Wilkin reviews Elisa D’Arrigo at George Adams Gallery: 1/2 [The exhibition] provided fresh evidence of the authority of her uncanny little objects…Despite their small size—or perhaps because of it—D’Arrigo’s sculptures clamor for our attention. They reward it richly.26 Jun 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp763dql3k22https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mp4nlbtslk2vPart I of "History" by Eugenio Montale, trans. by Nicholas Adams & David Schenck: 1/3 History does not unwind like a chain of unbroken rings. Anyhow, many of the links do not hold. History has no before and after,25 Jun 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4nlbtslk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mp257nwnls2fTom Wilhelmus on Departure(s) by Julian Barnes @aaknopf.bsky.social: 1/3 Early in Departure(s) it is important for the author-narrator to announce that the book would eventually contain a story, although that would have to come later. What it begins with instead is a lengthy disquisition on memory.24 Jun 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp257nwnls2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3moxlevdg622aMark Jarman reviews The Furies by Moira Egan @lsupress.bsky.social: 1/3 Moira Egan’s The Furies⁠ evokes incarnations of vengeance and conscience to remind us in particular of classical forms of judgment…Egan’s emphasis is the feminist response to masculine sin.23 Jun 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxlevdg622ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mov7rcsfmc2aErick Neher reviews Robert Icke’s adaptation of Oedipus: 1/2 There is perhaps a message of hope amid the mayhem of the play’s finale. Oedipus ultimately demonstrates how thoroughly knowledge can dismantle authority. Sophocles had faith in the power of truth, no matter how brutal it might be.22 Jun 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mov7rcsfmc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3molaghs5js2wFrom "Big-Leaf Maple" by Michael Spence: 1/2 I’d hoped to stare At those leaves waving their great green⁠— Hello/farewell—as I lay in our bed at the end. My husband learned the secret: how to leave His body on the couch. His surest move. I think he might have smiled at the irony18 Jun 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3molaghs5js2whttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3moihrjfgq22bBrooke Allen reviews The Choral, directed by Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner: 1/6 The Choral, Ramsden’s choral society, has played a major role in the community for a long time; now, two years into the “Great” War, it is decidedly frayed.17 Jun 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3moihrjfgq22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mofzrlreok24Charles McGrath reviews True Nature by Lance Richardson @pantheonbooks.bsky.social: 1/5 [Peter Matthiessen] always insisted that only the fiction mattered. His journalism, he said—his travel and nature writing—was just what he did to pay the bills. “It drains my batteries,” he complained.16 Jun 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mofzrlreok24https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3modjri7pv22qPerri Klass and Larry Woolf review Fra Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi: 1/4 Fra Angelico’s world touched the Medieval tradition of the monastery monk and also pointed toward the world of high Renaissance Florentine art. But the world Fra Angelico painted remains his own, radiantly beautiful,15 Jun 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3modjri7pv22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mo27fosuhk2w“Summer Wind” by David Lehman: You can’t count on Cézanne’s bather at MOMA, or Monet’s poplars, or even “Summer Wind” sung by Sinatra to restore order when all nature’s in an uproar:11 Jun 2026 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo27fosuhk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mnx2bge6ck2rKaren Wilkin reviews Egon Schiele at Neue Galerie: 1/3 That von Graff arranged for Schiele to draw at the hospital is attested to by a wall of drawings and watercolors of pregnant women and newborns. The questions they raise about what the artist was allowed to witness, and why,10 Jun 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnx2bge6ck2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mnuf2rvfsc2rFrom “Handwriting” by Michael McFee: 1/2 Now my right hand slurs words together as if it’s been drinking behind my back, or developing dementia, transposing/dropping letters/words, trying to hide it but failing.09 Jun 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnuf2rvfsc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mnrxufnkrk2oDean Flower reviews Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane @wwnorton.com: 1/3 The question posed in Macfarlane’s title—the crux of his book, in fact—is whether we can imagine nature and natural phenomena as alive, just as alive as we are, with their own agency and independent rights.08 Jun 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrxufnkrk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mnhsaueglk24From “My Ignorance” by D. Nurkse: Here is a robin, eyes like marble, claws like burnt matchsticks, still bleeding in the snow. The child watches and holds her breath. Do you know about the blue snow, falling all night while you sleep? Have you seen the sky in a dream? https://hudsonreview.com/2026/05/a-prison-workshop-my-ignorance/04 Jun 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhsaueglk24https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mnfcgao3z22tErick Neher reviews the Chess revival at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre: 1/5 Chess is never going to work as logical storytelling…But I must confess that despite its compositional failings, this production works remarkably well and is even thrilling on a regular basis…03 Jun 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfcgao3z22thttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mncroaekms2lMarina Harss reviews Via Dolorosa, choreography by Mark Morris: 1/2 Morris is unique today in his ability to pare down movement and ideas to their most essential, so that they register with particular clarity and resonance. Movement and sound appear to say exactly the same thing. It is a gift.02 Jun 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mncroaekms2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mnabkeujpc2tFrom “Salvage” by Sydney Lea: 1/2 That recall from back thirty years makes my thoughts start to pulse like those embers. It’s too unsurprising, the threat of tears, my descent to a shadow-world,01 Jun 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnabkeujpc2t