Join the underground generation. • A literary magazine pushing boundaries since 1957. Edited by Dale Peck, published by John Oakes. Now online, no paywall! Profile art by Alice Tippit. https://evergreenreview.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mqyzzew34222SUMMER READING IDEA: Order a perfect facsimile copy of the summer 1957 issue of the Evergreen Review, Vol. 1, No. 3! $16 (+ shipping), exclusively at the Evergreen Review online store: evergreenreview.com/shop19 Jul 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqyzzew34222https://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mq6and36ok22“On the plane ride from Miami to Tegucigalpa, Owen Mills thinks more about money than he thinks about his mother. Valerie has been out of his life too long to be more than an idea. She’s a concept, right?” —“Bad Blood” by Mark Jacobs. Art by Pablo Zelaya Sierra. https://evergreenreview.com/read/bad-blood/08 Jul 2026 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq6and36ok22https://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mq3uzkbl6k22“She’d married Desire because she was sure. He would provide the kind of life she never feared would split at the seams. . . .” Up now: “Reimagining What My Mother Would Have Done If She’d Had the (Eye)” by Zibusiso Mpofu. Art by Michalina Janoszanka. https://evergreenreview.com/reimagining-what-my-mother-would-have-done-if-shed-had-the-eye/08 Jul 2026 00:39 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3uzkbl6k22https://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3moqgqtpvas2n“As we sit at this juncture of hospicing the old and dreaming the new into being, I think deeply about the literary legacies we live and love . . . .” —“Somehow We Survive: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Soweto Uprising” by Uhuru Phalafala. https://evergreenreview.com/read/somehow-we-survive-keorapetse-kgositsile-and-the-soweto-uprising/20 Jun 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3moqgqtpvas2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mootdg2rls2n“Fifty years constitute more than a mere chronological milestone; they represent a half-century of a ‘telegraphed punch’ that landed on the jaw of an empire.” Up now: “The Rhythms of Resistance: The Soweto Uprising Fifty Years Later” by Maakomele R. Manaka. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-rhythms-of-resistance-the-soweto-uprising/20 Jun 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mootdg2rls2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3moghza4e622n“There’s an aspect to these shootings that nobody talks about, a sense that by not getting gorped we’ve accomplished something . . .” Up now at Evergreen: “Hide” and two more poems by Edward Johnson. Art by Maritza Ranero. https://evergreenreview.com/read/exploded-portmanteaux-and-wayward-palindromes/16 Jun 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3moghza4e622nhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mo23tek56c2n“Marc Vincenz’s ‘No More Animal Poems’ is not so much a Cassandra cry in advance of impending ecological disaster as a paean to a prelapsarian world in which humans and animals intermix.” —“An Ode to Extinction” by Alexander Cigale. Art: @karsenheagle.bsky.social. https://evergreenreview.com/read/an-ode-to-extinction-marc-vincenz-no-more-animal-poems/11 Jun 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo23tek56c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mnppnsdcjc2n“Jean’s overzealousness about Christ was the driving factor of her life, and my tame Muslim family was the perfect prey for her, since she’d never managed to convert her husband.” Up now: “The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations” by Mohammad Hakima. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-dark-duality-of-us-iran-relations/07 Jun 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnppnsdcjc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mndzhgqzns2f“Tonight, I learn the umami of iron by pulling a man through it and the fence quakes in my grip of green. The wire croons along my stem. Rust powders like dry skin . . .” —“Chambēlī Bleeds Between Borders” and more poems by Hannan Khan. Art by Adam Francis Scott. https://evergreenreview.com/read/chambeli-bleeds-between-borders/03 Jun 2026 02:04 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mndzhgqzns2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mmz6ahfyj22f“Africa never ceases to amaze. Tatum and his hosts find an adequate three-star restaurant even in this forest. The cuisine includes a number of dishes that delight the palate.” Up now: an excerpt from “The Terrible Fives,” by Ishmael Reed. Art by Devan Shimoyama. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-terrible-fives/29 May 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmz6ahfyj22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mmrfxoiyg22f“The egret straightens himself, looks to the right and then left, looks up at the chandelier over the dining-room table, flies up onto the Medusa-shaped lights, and perches along the stem of her braids.” —“Emergency Room” by Bram Gunther. Art by Tanya Marcuse. https://evergreenreview.com/read/emergency-room/26 May 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrfxoiyg22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mmoxbqvx3k2f“In academia the use of the word ‘cult’ is controversial. The reason? ‘The cult wars.’ Which I’d never heard of until I sold ‘American Trickster’ to the University of California Press.” —“The Cult Wars” by @rumarshall.bsky.social. Art by Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-cult-wars/25 May 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmoxbqvx3k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mmhxp6dqxc2f“The morning’s events were embarrassing, and that was being nice about it. The eviction trucks came—loudly drove up their cul-de-sac at eight AM.” Up now: “Naked Elijah and the Twin Flames,” a new short story by Emelda Gwitimah. Art by Raffaele Mainella. https://evergreenreview.com/rea/naked-elijah-and-the-twin-flames/22 May 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhxp6dqxc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mma76uttms2f“Both left and right overstate her influence, flatten her philosophy, and use a particular image of Rand for their own advantage. But most egregiously, she is so rarely thought about as a novelist.” —@ciaramoloney.bsky.social on ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand. https://evergreenreview.com/read/on-the-fountainhead/19 May 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mma76uttms2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mlobqh4q2s2z“I’m holding hands with a group of strangers in a circle, and we’re all jumping up and down screaming ‘I’m a piece of shit! I’m a stupid piece of shit! I’m a stupid fucking piece of shit!’ This is our first task in the world of clowning.” —“Clowning” by Jamie Kahn. evergreenreview.com/read/clowning/ https://evergreenreview.com/read/clowning/12 May 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlobqh4q2s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mladqtbb6c2u“The man’s underpants emerged above his trousers; a strip of waist, loose flesh with the complexion of sliced turkey, was exposed; and a shirt hem flowered from under a sweater.” —“St. Patrick Drives Out the Snakes” by Mark Martin. Art by Sir William Orpen. https://evergreenreview.com/read/st-patrick-drives-out-the-snakes/07 May 2026 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mladqtbb6c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3ml4r2fv3hc2u“As some men do, he opens with a question that’s really a wedge. ‘I saw your work in “--” a while back. Do you write protest poems?’ . . .” —“Fourteen-line note to self as we enter a darkling time” and more poems by Erin Redfern. Art by @sharonbutler.bsky.social. https://evergreenreview.com/read/fourteen-line-poems/05 May 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4r2fv3hc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mkl7jpgap22u“There are numerous culturally accredited conduits for time travel: phone booth, tanning bed, sleeping bag, hot tub, and so on. I found my way by way of a chance encounter with a discarded pile of Artforums.” —“Back Issues” by Jessica Almereyda. Art by Wolf Paw. https://evergreenreview.com/read/back-issues/28 Apr 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl7jpgap22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mk4ypb6rt22u“You are twenty-six years old. The day before you are admitted into Akeso, a psychiatric clinic in Milnerton, Cape Town, you see the sky blinking and depositing stars across the horizon.” —“Death Is for the Living” by @rofhiwamaneta.bsky.social. Art by Lynd Ward. https://evergreenreview.com/read/death-is-for-the-living/23 Apr 2026 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4ypb6rt22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mjzjn2l5ok2u“Everything about the mother-daughter relationship, particularly during the teenage years, is claustrophobic. Mother-daughter conflicts take place in tight, contained spaces: cars, kitchens, dressing rooms.” Up now: “Blood Bonds” by Hannah Engler Harvey. Art by Margo Hoff. https://evergreenreview.com/read/blood-bonds/21 Apr 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzjn2l5ok2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mjpsm4b3x22w“I am not a synesthete, yet I often perceive Tippit’s paintings through multiple senses. It’s a strange feeling but true to my experience in encountering open forms . . .” —“The Rose Is Obsolete,” an essay on artist Alice Tippit by @simpsome.bsky.social. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-rose-is-obsolete/17 Apr 2026 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpsm4b3x22whttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mjnsbinnus2n“There were paintings on the huge ceiling, of men and women in robes, shepherds and sheep, men holding sticks with a curve at the top, and clouds and fires and skies. The men looked angry.” —“The Children Everywhere, Asleep” by Paul Cody. Art by Shanna Zentner. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-children-everywhere-asleep/17 Apr 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjnsbinnus2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/evergreenreview.bsky.social/post/3mjaqqcz2js2n“you pictured yourself crossing the river linking agadaz to reality as your eyes play the tape of fishermen netting dead bodies out of the river. . .” Up now: “agadaz: the river/ the dead bodies” and two more poems by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi. Art by Lauren Drescher. https://evergreenreview.com/read/medusa-at-the-barbers-shop/11 Apr 2026 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:jspeme673sewec2gnkchyuub/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjaqqcz2js2n