“Hasbún’s novel braids heightened versions of two stories, both of which are staples of coming-of-age fiction: a student-teacher relationship and a teenager having an abortion.” - @coryoldweiler.bsky.social THE INVISIBLE YEARS (via @deepvellum.bsky.social) 💥 southwestreview.com/a-zone-of-in...

Our Mónica Ojeda marathon rolls on! Read FLYING HEAD (tr. by Sarah Booker) from our spring issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

“Mónica Ojeda writes like the sentences are escaping from the fractured earth after disaster.” @ElsbyCharlene reviews Mónica Ojeda's ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN (tr. Sarah Booker), out now via Coffee House Press 💥 southwestreview.com/nightmares-o...

“Society is rotten to its core. You’re being lied to. The routines and the rituals are bullshit. It’s a broken world, getting more broken every day.” In the latest NEEDLE DROPS, @wmboyle4.bsky.social digs into Leonard Cohen's EVERYBODY KNOWS from PUTV 🎞️ southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

“This is a book you buy copies of for all your friends and demand they read it immediately.” Take it from Jimmy! New review of LIVES OF THE SAINTS by Nancy Lemann, reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Still feeling the most pinnacle vibes from our weekend at Frontera ☀️ TYSFM to the fest HQ's @texastheatre.bsky.social The Kessler Theater & The Wild Detectives — <3 4evr Y'all think we should run it back in 2K27? 🤔

Our pal/contributing writer @raviddice.bsky.social is back w/ a heavy hitter on grief and the end of the world 🕳️ Read MASTER OF PUPPETS from our spring issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Our very own Hannah Smith dug DEEP in the SwR mines and dusted off our very first issue (1915) 🪓 Read the latest DISPATCH FROM THE ARCHIVES from our spring issue, 111 years after our debut 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

“Now they were making their way down a street even darker than the last, and the driver was barely stopping at the red lights.” 📌 ICYMI, read METEOR by Camila Fabbri from our spring issue southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper is out next week & what better way to pregame than w/ a story from our spring issue? 💥 Crack open a Red Dog & read HOW TO KILL 🎤 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

KNOWN ASSOCIATES is back & we have legendary British singer/songwriter Graham Parker on the mf POD 🎙️ Listen to his convo w/ Elizabeth Nelson about his storied career on the 50th anniversary of his debut album HOWLIN’ WIND 🎶 southwestreview.com/known-associ...

Who's ready for a road trip? 🚕 Ride shotgun w/a new story from our spring issue by Camila Fabbri Read METEOR, translated by Robin Myers 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

“Height ain’t nothing but a number.” NBA playoffs this weekend and Liam Baranauskas is back with another edition of LET US NOW PRAISE GIANT MEN. Enjoy you freaks! 🏀 southwestreview.com/let-us-now-p...

“A city is on profile here, yet also a region and whole way of life, of which Governor Edwards, the figure on trial, isn’t so much a symbol as he is a symptom.” On Nancy Lemann's NOLA classic THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU, reissued @hubcitypress.bsky.social 📿⚜️ southwestreview.com/the-roving-m...

To cap off the most legendary weekend ever, we went hard af at our home away from home The Wild Detectives 🧡 Readings by @catherinelacey.bsky.social @monaojedaf.bsky.social @dsparis.bsky.social & more… After party DJ set by Frontera fit 👑 Richard Villegas

Last Friday The Wild Detectives ☀️ Frontera went live w/ Amanda Petrusich & OG homie Elizabeth Nelson 🎙️ Stay tuned for their convo in a new ep our podcast KNOWN ASSOCIATES 💥

Last Saturday at @texastheatre.bsky.social we pulled out all the stops 🍿 Director Allan Moyle & producer Sandy Stern joined us for a screening of his 1990 classic PUMP UP THE VOLUME followed by a convo w/ our movie guru @wmboyle4.bsky.social 🎥 How tf do we do it?! 🥵

Our ears are still buzzing from Friday night at The Kessler Theater tbh 🔊 We threw down hard af w/ Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Sword II, & Apache O’Raspi for the third annual Frontera 🔥

Frontera weekend is upon us! Catch your favorite authors & more... IRL at The Wild Detectives this Saturday 💥 Grab a book, get it signed, rake in MILLIONS 💰

You know we gotta end Frontera right 🪩 Sat night at at The Wild Detectives our music columnist / homie 4 life Songmess will be bringing the beats FREE admission. NO COPS. 🚫

Feast yr eyes on the cover for our spring issue 🤩 Design by Ryan Davis (@technique_street) We'll have copies live & lit at Frontera this weekend where you can catch Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band 💥 Or subscribe here: southwestreview.com/subscribe/

Peep the TOC for our spring issue 💥 Subscribe now & get hyped to see some of these legends IRL this weekend at Frontera 🪩

Saturday night we're pulling up The Wild Detectives 🔥 After party deets coming soon af 🪩

“One of the novel’s darkest episodes comes when the narrator has a miscarriage in the bathroom: ‘I stand in front of my lost thing, I don’t dare refer to it any other way.’” Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on LITHIUM by Malén Denis 💥 southwestreview.com/the-mania-of...

Next week we're back at our movie mecca @texastheatre.bsky.social 🍿 Catch a screening of PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990) followed by a convo w/ director Allan Moyle, producer Sandy Stern, & our film columnist @wmboyle4.bsky.social 🎥

Bummed bc your bracket is busted? Then this book is for you! Our hoops columnist Liam Baranauskas rings in the season w/a review of MEDIUM RARE by A. Natasha Joukovsky 🏀 Read below & grab the book via @melvillehouse.bsky.social southwestreview.com/way-way-abov...

Friday night at Frontera, we’re turning ALL the way UP at The Kessler Theater w/ Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Sword II, & Apache O’Raspi 🔥 We'll be checking fits at the door. 💅 🎨: @willbryantplz.bsky.social

FRONTERA is just around the corner. Y’all ready? First up on the schedge, we have Amanda Petrusich in convo w/ Elizabeth Nelson at The Wild Detectives for a live taping of our podcast KNOWN ASSOCIATES 🎙️ Preserve your claps in audio HISTORY 👏

“Max Delsohn’s debut short story collection is hilarious. You’re allowed to laugh. It is also masterfully written, deeply felt, and at times painfully sad.” CRAWL is out now via @graywolfpress.bsky.social & Riley Rennhack reviewed the goods 💥 southwestreview.com/youre-allowe...

Tomorrow! 1 night only! From the @bobdylancenter.bsky.social we're showing STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN followed by a convo w/ director Steven Jenkins & Elizabeth Nelson 🍿 MI$$I$$IPPI, don't sleep on this! Ty @endofallmusic.bsky.social @ The Lyric (Oxford) for hosting 🖤

Back at it & doin’ the damn thang bigger than ever this year tbh. Get yr schedgies locked on this fr. No filler. 🥵

“He knew that he was bad, the worst. Perhaps he deserved all the darkness surrounding him.” From our winter issue: DEATHWRESTER, by Laura Ortiz Gómez, translated by Lisa Dillman 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

“Each story uses a narrative voice that is somewhere between the now-you-see-it patois of a professional magician and the invocations of an ancient prophet.” Wilson McBee reviews ALLIGATOR by David Ryan, out now via Cash 4 Gold Books 💥 southwestreview.com/in-dreams-be...

📌 ICYMI, ep 5 of KNOWN ASSOCIATES Feat. our host Elizabeth Nelson talking w/ @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social about his new record, the state of music writing, the general weirdness of the Southwest, & more… southwestreview.com/known-associ...

New NEEDLE DROPS w/ legend @meganabbott.bsky.social at the helm 🎶 In this edition: Enya's “Marble Halls” + Martin Scorsese’s THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 🎨 @ohhhaeee.bsky.social southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

New ep of KNOWN ASSOCIATES out now & we got @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social in the mf hot seat 🎙️ JPW's new record, the state of music writing, the general weirdness of the Southwest & more w/ our host Elizabeth Nelson Listen courtesy of @newponytx.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/known-associ...

“PLACES IN THE HEART is one of the great films of the 1980s, and the greatest Texas movie of all time.” Read @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on director Robert Benton's forgotten masterpiece 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

And without further ahdoo....we give you...FRONTERA 2026 💥

“Maciel’s novel also reads like a scrapbook or family album of a Brazilian city, in this case Rio de Janeiro.” Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel 💥 Out now via @newvesselpress.bsky.social southwestreview.com/scrapbook-of...

Rack 'em and crack 'em! 🎱 New from our winter issue, read EIGHT BALL by Elaina Smith below… southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

Roll the windows down & cruise to the DR with your host Richard Villegas w/ merengue BUMPING 🔊 Read the latest installment of HAY QUE VENIR AL SUR in our winter issue below 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

“The roads that the Keene brothers travel are vividly described, and populated with oddball characters that fill most American road novels, a genre full of vagabonds.” David Dufour reviews Devin Kelly's PILGRIMS, out now via @greatplacebooks.bsky.social southwestreview.com/the-brothers...

“Turns out you are never more alive than when you are not dead.” 🕳️ Wild new nonfic from our winter issue. Read DESIGN THEORY by Lee Durkee 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

“Moreno has given us a vital text for navigating our strange, sticky present.”🧪 STICKY TIME by Alex Moreno is out now via Sunflower Station & we had @formermissnj.bsky.social review it in all its glory 💥 southwestreview.com/a-god-so-clo...

“Nothing short of revolutionary.” 💥 S/o to @twolinespress.com for adding this double dose of Elena Garro to our must-read list 🙏 New review by Cory Oldweiler on THE WEEK OF COLORS (tr. Megana McDowell) and THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by Jazmina Barrera southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

THE GUEST LIST is back w/ another banger 🎶 EVERYWHERE ISN'T TEXAS, the new album by August Ponthier is out tomorrow & we had our own Hannah Smith get the scoop on their reading recs before release 💥 southwestreview.com/the-guest-li...

I have three poems in the new issue of the Southwest Review (@southwestreview.bsky.social). Here is one of them.

First basketball column of the year AND feat. in our winter issue for the first time in print 🏀 Read LET US NOW PRAISE GIANT MEN | I LOVE BASKETBALL by Liam Baranauskas Shoutout Metta World Peace conspiracy theories, & non-carbon based life! 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

New issue of @southwestreview.bsky.social is a stunner. It features a Needle Drops column where @meganabbott.bsky.social writes about Enya’s “Marble Halls” in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on PLACES IN THE HEART, & much more. 6 bucks a copy. southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

From our winter issue (out in the world irl) 🌎 Read SAND, SAND, SAND by Tamara Silva Bernaschina translated by Juana Adcock below southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...