Summer at Harvard Review
In Siracusa, even the priest's hands perform tricks
that beg for change
and the congregation cries, Miracle!
as if an annus mirabilis
arrived with every First of Spring. See, there,
the charm in the vial:
half-shade of a saint's blood turning into liquid
before the people's startled eyes.--from "The Constant Visitor" by Will Schutt
new fiction by Barbara Hamby & Nic Brown
poems by Sonia Sanchez, Sherman Alexie & Terrance Hayes
plus: Fady Joudah translates Mahmoud Darwishessay on Poetry, Poverty, Sleeplessness & Death
plus: Problems and Solutions in the Golden English Language
HR Fiction Editor Nam Le wins Anisfield-Wolf Award
Nam Le, author of the acclaimed short story collection The Boat, has recently been awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Over the past year, he has also won the Dylan Thomas Prize, the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Book of the Year, the UTS Glenda Adams Award, the Steele Rudd Award and others. In June, he was named Newcomer of the Year by the Australian Book Industry.
Terrance Hayes online at Poetry Daily
Terrance Hayes' poem, "Snow for Wallace Stevens," which first appeared in HR 36, will be featured on Poetry Daily on Sunday, August 16.
HR Now Available on JSTOR
Back issues of Harvard Review are now available on JSTOR, the not-for-profit online digital archive. Users will be able to access full-text articles from every previous issue of Harvard Review, except those published in the last three years, as PDF files for searching, browsing, downloading, and printing. Users at institutions that participate in JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences V Collection can access the back issues directly by visiting Harvard Review’s journal page. More information about JSTOR can be found at www.jstor.org.
HR Redesign Wins Praise
HR 35 has been selected for the AIGA BoNE (Best of New England) Show at Mass Art until July 8. For commentary on Harvard Review's new look see The Casual Optimist and The Book Cover Archive Blog.
HR Editor Guests Blogs at Slush Pile
Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson considers how long it really takes to write a book at the on-line journal Slush Pile.
James Marcus in Best American Essays 2009
James Marcus's essay "Faint Music," which first appeared in Harvard Review Issue 34, will be included in Best American Essays 2009.
