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/3mzdncmi6q22hFrom “Xanthus: A Hippiad” by A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social (the Iliad as told by a horse!): 1/4 But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.02 Nov 2026 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzdncmi6q22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3myzqmgw6dc2dOur autumn issue is now online! Featuring our short fiction contest 3rd-prize winner Shahriar Shaams and honorable mention Yara Zgheib; a retelling of the Iliad by A. E. Stallings; and poetry by Rebecca Foust and Emma Bolden; and more! hudsonreview.com29 Oct 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzqmgw6dc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mxeny3tbok2dLorna Knowles Blake on If You Love That Lady by Maya C. Popa @wwnorton.com: Popa’s poems are gracefully constructed, formally varied and elegant…I might argue that the entire collection is a love letter to poetry and the world it can make or re-make out of this “extravagant, fatal, blinking life.”08 Oct 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxeny3tbok2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mx7myhdjjs2cLouise Marburg reviews Vigil by George Saunders from Random House: 1/2 Vigil is part political statement and part comedy, and I’m not sure it works as either. Climate change isn’t funny…and I wondered if I was missing a point beyond the obvious fact that capitalism is destroying the earth.06 Oct 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx7myhdjjs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mwo2hlyikk2uErick Neher reviews Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner: 1/4 There’s an inevitability to Giant, a lack of surprise. That’s not necessarily a complaint. It’s a wonderful watch, full of intelligent dialogue and performances,29 Sep 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwo2hlyikk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mwdxub7znc2k“Tongue-Tie” by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi : 1/3 I sweep my finger gently, underneath his tongue, stretching the lingual frenulum, a tight fold of tissue shaping his organ of speech and taste into a heart. Lingual: Relating to,25 Sep 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdxub7znc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mwbxbrks422lLorna Knowles Blake reviews We Interrupt This Broadcast by Gregory Orr @wwnorton.com Now in his seventy-ninth year, the poet’s mood is reflective and elegiac as he ponders the state of the world and its disconnects—species extinction, extreme weather, the pandemic. https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/our-worlds-in-our-words/24 Sep 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbxbrks422lhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mw6vqb3zwc2uFrom “Restos” by Mark Jacobs: 1/2 It turns out that Lina Luz is correct, Stroessner’s torture consultant is now sheltering under the Good Shepherd roof. Ticio speaks with the deputy administrator, and then the administrator. Both are troubled by the presence of Caceres but fall back on23 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6vqb3zwc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mw4gneulq22iBrooke Allen reviews The Dream Factory, by Daniel Swift from FSG: 1/4 Swift’s assumption of a natural division between art, craft, and trade seems dubious…When has the realm of art not belonged within the world of work, at least if the artist aims to earn a living from his work,22 Sep 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4gneulq22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mvsfjgdd322sFrom “A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense” by David Mason: 1/2 …The walls moan like an out-of-tune brass orchestra, keeping us up at night. Or is it the state of the world that keeps us up the drawn-out anxious sense of something wrong because men who should care for the people have decided not to care?18 Sep 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsfjgdd322shttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mvpsbhyd7k2nMarina Harss reviews Tiler Peck’s Symphonie Espagnole, New York City Ballet: 1/3 Peck’s Symphonie Espagnole has guts and scale; she is a more than proficient choreographer, with the skill to move great numbers of dancers around the stage and create a satisfying effect while doing so.17 Sep 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpsbhyd7k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mvngrlglas2oLouise Marburg reviews The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín @scribnerbooks.bsky.social: Every one of [the stories] is gorgeously written…The News from Dublin is un-put-downable, a collection you can inhale in a day. https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-delicious-stack/16 Sep 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvngrlglas2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mvksshwnyc24From “Sox in the Underworld” by Joan Murray: 1/3 I left my mark on the hand-carved Aubusson, and I shredded the hand-knotted fringe of the kilim. But whose bright idea was it to put those first-edition volumes in a shallow rectangular box and leave it on15 Sep 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvksshwnyc24https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mvibtyj5us22Lorna Knowles Blake reviews Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? by Donna Masini @wwnorton.com: Donna Masini’s fourth collection of poems is a fast-paced book that touches on a host of subjects—from ants to dictionaries to clams to philosophy—that engage her restless, quirky imagination.14 Sep 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvibtyj5us22https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mvarzkljcc2yKaren Wilkin reviews Giuseppe Penone at Gagosian: 1/4 Cork trees, we learn, are carefully stripped of their outer bark every nine years; it then regrows, a cycle that makes the material especially appealing to Penone, whose work is always about the passage of time and often about growth.11 Sep 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvarzkljcc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mv3rifz3wk2yFrom “The Next New Architecture Thing” by Witold Rybczynski: 1/3 Bouts of architectural uncertainty are not historically unprecedented. They usually occur when the aesthetic problems of a particular period appear to have been solved, when tried-and-true solutions have been codified…09 Sep 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3rifz3wk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3muzcqb3gns2pLouise Marburg on Louise Erdrich's Python’s Kiss @harperbooks.bsky.social: Reading them is like entering into another time that is not exactly the past, nor quite the present…Now and then I would put Python’s Kiss down mid-story simply to appreciate its singularity. https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-delicious-stack/08 Sep 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzcqb3gns2phttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mup6bttwwc24We’re open for regular fiction submissions! 10,000 words max, no AI. Submit online at hudsonreview.com/submissions by 11/30. As always, it’s free to submit. We look forward to reading your work! Full guidelines at https://hudsonreview.com/about-us/regular-submissions/04 Sep 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup6bttwwc24https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mumms6skcs2kFrom "Love Letter to My Apartment" by Michele Herman: Dear best thousand square feet of thrift shop, warehouse, hardware store, archive, costume department fully stocked with my size⁠— here I can get my hands on whatever I believe I need right this minute or ever… https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/love-letter-to-my-apartment/03 Sep 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumms6skcs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3muhlzzv4gk2rKaren Wilkin reviews Leon Kossoff at Luhring Augustine Chelsea: 1/3 The sheer impact of the artist’s densely loaded, ferociously worked paintings was impossible to ignore. Somehow, sludgy color and suffocating amounts of pigment became irresistible and deeply engaging…01 Sep 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhlzzv4gk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3muf3ifnf5k2kFrom “Woman Raking Leaves in Barry Park” by Charles Martin: The woman and the monks both understand The momentary tenure of all art, Whether we make it out of breath, or sand, Or even these leaves, which, as I depart A thoughtless wind gust presently unweaves. https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/at-the-grave-of-tiem-duc-bui-woman-raking-leaves-in-barry-park-late-bedtime-story-camden-1969-after-borges/31 Aug 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf3ifnf5k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mu2xzufddc2pFrom “Citizens of the Wind” by David Mason: 1/2 A snow-colored cloud shades the bay, but beyond it the ice-blue waves burn in another realm of light, a kind of brightness, a kind of joy opening my eyes, setting a course for no known point in land or sea.27 Aug 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2xzufddc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mtyihh2kxc2pFrom “Colorful Circle Center Whole” by D. T. Holt: 1/2 My Dutch uncle—the Jesuit⁠— he told me I ought to read Oscar Wilde on account of he was incarcerated. And it occurred to me: No,26 Aug 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyihh2kxc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mtvye2xan222Lorna Knowles Blake reviews It Looks Like a Man by Heather McHugh @weslpress.bsky.social: Approaching McHugh’s poems can be like stepping through Alice’s looking glass. The surface is seldom what it seems. https://hudsonreview.com/2026/07/our-worlds-in-our-words/25 Aug 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvye2xan222https://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mttxvut2422rFrom “Trying to Write a First Love Poem at Seventy” by Brian Culhane: 1/2 Hours into it and no likely start, Pen poised over many a crossed-out line. Fool, look in thy heart and write—fine advice, I suppose, from courtly love until now, But my ardent heart beats on in silence.24 Aug 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttxvut2422rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mtlzzgamus2jDavid Mason on Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel, by Frances Wilson @fsgbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Frances Wilson is one of our boldest and most innovative biographers because she understands the fundamental problem of her art. She writes biography as essay, as attempt, and she is particularly21 Aug 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlzzgamus2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mtjhqb4oas2qKaren Wilkin reviews the Art Students League’s Fairfield Porter exhibition: 1/2 It all seems straightforward and modest, but with longer acquaintance, Porter’s connection to the history of Western art becomes evident, as well as his audacity.20 Aug 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjhqb4oas2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mth2kpr6i22mLouise Marburg reviews Melanie Pappadis Faranello's collection from Columbus State University Press: 1/3 Everybody Needs Something is the title of her thought-provoking debut story collection.⁠ I’d like to tack on a fitting subtitle: But They Probably Aren’t Going to Get It…19 Aug 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth2kpr6i22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mtefe5ragk2cFrom “The Deer Mouse Berates Me” by Joan Murray: 1/3 Sleepless all night, you lay listening, listening, as if I might come thumping along the floorboards dragging a sack. As if I hadn’t slithered sylphlike a hundred times over, a single seed held lightly18 Aug 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtefe5ragk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/hudsonreview.bsky.social/post/3mtbzd5mk3s27In 2018, Spanish novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina documented his writing process over the summer he struggled to write one novel, gave up on the idea—only for another to quickly come in its place, resulting in Your Steps on the Stairs (Other Press, 2025). (1/3)17 Aug 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:76exd7zljs5ynwsvbe7dufeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbzd5mk3s27