"Where the pelicans glide overhead/And the whitecaps foam up like beer heads,/There’s a cold one for you./Try a Florida brew/By the shore with your beach blanket spread." Marsha Bryant shares some late spring brew rhymes to whet your whistle until summer: massreview.org/2026/05/27/b...

"A single letter may not change a system, but it can change a moment. It can offer comfort on a difficult day, provide a sense of dignity, or simply break the silence. " Patty Prewitt on writing letters to immigrant detainees for MR's #PublicAffairs series: massreview.org/2026/05/22/o...

Congrats to MR Prose in Translation editor Corine Tachtiris on her election as the new board president of @littranslate.bsky.social! Read more here: literarytranslators.org/alta-welcome...

"In Gaza, everyone seems to carry their own version of the Nakba. Mine is Rafah, a city I refuse to speak about in the past tense." 78 years after the Nakba in Palestine, Hassan Herzallah shares a piece on the inheritance of grief in Rafah. themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/rafah-my-o...

"I feel like I’ve always been translating from one culture to the other, one language to another." EDWARD GUNAWAN talks Bahasa Binan, the connection between gardening and translating, and his process of translating Hendri Yulius Wijaya: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/interview-...

Read our full call for submissions for our forthcoming issue on Documentation here: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

Submissions for our Documentation issue close Friday!

"Each day in Gaza is a new battle to navigate the different cacophonies of Israel’s massacres." Ahmad Sbaih's essay on noise and listening in the ongoing genocide in Gaza: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/the-sounds...

Tonight!! Please join us (virtually) in celebrating Caroline Harper New at 7pm EST. Hope to see you there!

Looking for a late spring read? Check out the latest drops from past contributors like @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social, @jbrookewrites.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, and more: massreview.org/2026/05/05/s...

In celebration of #InternationalWorker'sDay, we thought we'd share this interview with MR's founding editor Jules Chametzky where he talked with historian Bruce Laurie back in 2003 about union activities on campus: massreview.org/wp-content/u...

"Poetry was something that found me at a time in my life when I was really, really struggling. That was almost 27 years ago. It's been a lifeboat for me ever since." CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ in our latest interview, available as text or audio: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/interview-...

"I often want to give literature what has been taken away from me." SHIRA ERLICHMAN in our latest interview: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/interview-...

Mark your calendars! Our #virtualreading to celebrate our Halley Prize winner Caroline Harper New is happening Wednesday May 6th at 7pm EST. Register for the event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-virtual-...

Less than two weeks to send us work before we close for the summer! massreview.org/new-submissi...

#WesternMass friends! Join UMass' Comp Lit Program and @interlinkbooks.bsky.social tomorrow for their "Lebanon in Words & Music" reading and concert. The event takes place tomorrow April 15th at 7:00 pm in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall, UMass.

Congrats to MR contributors Demetrius "Meech" Buckley, Mahogany L. Browne, Benjamin Frandsen, Sheree L. Greer, and Bernardo Wade, and to the other amazing writers selected as 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows from @haymarketbooks.org & @mellon.org: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/545-me...

"Ramadan is no longer defined by the call to prayer or the gathering around iftar tables, but by displacement, scarcity, and uncertainty. Parents struggle to secure basic meals." Khaled Al-Qershali's latest article, RAMADAN IN GAZA: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/ramadan-in...

Read our full call for submissions for our forthcoming issue on Documentation here: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

Congratulations to Caroline Harper New, winner of the 2026 Anne Halley Prize for her poem MY LOVE FOR GEOGRAPHY IS AN ACT OF MOURNING! open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"To understand Gaza’s future, one must study both the past and the present. The equation today is unmistakable: Gaza is not being allowed to recover—it is being managed to remain on the edge of collapse." Jumana Maghari on Palestine's future: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"Far from to forgive all, in this book, to understand all is precisely to entertain the loving and revolutionary imperative of non-forgiveness." Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) looks at Jordy Rosenberg's latest, NIGHT NIGHT FAWN, for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2026/03/24/n...

"One can imagine a lonely poet facing the beautiful sights of a ‘golden island’ or willow-reeds in a lush field, at once feeling free through nature, but also trapped terrestrially due to his mortal conscience." Bijaan Noormohamed on translation for our #10questions: massreview.org/2026/03/23/1...

"From this present, THE OFFICIAL HISTORY continues to offer a meditation on the ways in which authoritarianism settles into daily life before it’s named and confronted." Manuela Borzone on watching LA HISTORIA OFICIAL now, 40 years after its release: substack.com/@themassachu...

"Write about the thing you’re ashamed of; the thing you’re afraid to say aloud. That’s where you’ll find your liberation." JODI M. SAVAGE in our latest interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

Our spring issues is finally here! Featuring work from Stella Wong and Tyler Patton, Jess Row and Hassan Herzallah, plus translations of prose and poetry, with art from Jennifer Strings, you'll surely find the literary warmth in these late winter days: massreview.org/issue/volume...

"In this moment of growing global authoritarianism, building international networks of solidarity is key." Dany Díaz Mejía's LESSONS FROM HONDURAS: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"I get so tired of living up to some imagined expectation of what makes sense for me to write. I just want to write. I’m getting there." Eric Boyd in our newest interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"The Iran war is enabled by the military, financial, and diplomatic support of Western governments for the apartheid state of Israel and its right-wing extremist government." MICHEL MOUSHABECK for our Public Affairs: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/bombing-ir...

Check out our Executive Editor Britt Rusert on WHMP's Talk The Talk, talking about our current issue featuring writers and families on incarceration: soundcloud.com/whmp/mass-re...

"El Guabli insists that Saharanism is an ideological deafness, a learned incapacity to hear or register the voices, stories, and intricate relationships that make up desert life, so that only fantasies of absence, danger, or utility are recognized" by IBRAHIM FAWZY open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"I love the feeling of knowing that communication has been achieved, the transfer of an idea from one mind to another." Carl "Taqwaa" Moore in our newest interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"Having read SCREAM WITH ME first, I more than once mentally thanked Lisowski in UNCANNY VALLEY GIRLS for the respect she affords [horror films] merely by refraining from jamming the square peg of horror into liberal feminism’s round hole." Sophie Lewis: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"If I am insistent and lucky, I might stumble upon something surprising but that which seems to be already waiting in the language of arrival." Dong Li on the uncovering found within translation, plus his admiration of en plein air painting, for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2026/02/24/1...

Congrats to past MR contributor Robin Myers and her translation of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING on making the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026

"I loved writing. It has always felt like something no one could take away from me." Sheree L. Greer's interview, plus a short reading: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

So excited and honored to be a part of this roundup! We look forward to seeing you all and the other finalists at AWP.

I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!! We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions! Read with us!

"Israel’s color-zoning of Gaza is an aggressive policy of grabbing land and redrawing borders, making the return of Gazans to their homes almost impossible." Amna Dmeida for our Public Affairs: substack.com/@themassachu...

Watch Jakyra Green and Carl "Taqwaa" Moore from our INCARCERATION & FAMILY special issue read and discuss each other's poems: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"I had witnessed the miracle: my inspired thought had been conveyed and then experienced by my audience. I had created a moment." Benjamin Frandsen's new creative nonfiction piece on the craft of his essay from 66.4: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"When it’s cold, find some warmth by the fire. Pour a beer right before you retire To your favorite chair. Here are some you can share As these frostier evenings transpire." FIRESIDE BEERS in review by Marsha Bryant: substack.com/@themassachu...

Our winter BOGO sale ends this Saturday! Specify which two issues you'd like in the "Back Issue" text box: general-umass.nbsstore.net/massachusett...

Watch Mae Ellen-Marie Wissert read her poem "one night outlaw" from our INCARCERATION & FAMILY issue: youtu.be/DYXfrO-BSC4?...

This isn't the first time that children were taken from their parents by Immigration Enforcement and sent to Dilley, TX; in fact, Katherine Silver wrote about her experiences visiting the detainment center there for MR back in 2018: massreview.org/2018/10/22/t...

"We need more archives of African lives, especially of places like the north of Ghana, and [Wunpini Fatimata] Mohammed’s book is the right start." Ayesha Harruna Attah's review of MEDIA, CULTURE, AND DECOLONIZATION: substack.com/@themassachu...

After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...

"I think a sporadic or low-stakes writing life can still be productive and deeply serious." Michael Fischer shares his unpopular writing advice (and confesses his great schemes): open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

"This art-form encourages a kind of vulnerability which is needed now more than ever, for those of us who cannot stop worrying yet refuse to look away." Samar Abdrabbou on the Palestinian art of Tatreez: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

J. D. Mathes from our Winter Special Issue reads his essay "Momma Tried": youtu.be/kuPKYvoDCBQ?...