The Cincinnati Review

31/10/2025

"This liminal mood would spill into the house itself, no longer a constrained space, but porous and crackling with dangerous possibilities."

This week on site, Associate Editor Andy Sia explores eerie and liminal spaces in a Halloween feature.

29/10/2025

"For a decade I carry the rotting mango, its pit humming with maggots. I cannot rid myself of it, I cannot glance away."

What happens when something goes from delicious to sickeningly sweet? Preeti Talwai's miCRo has all the answers! Link in first comment.

24/10/2025

"We’re taught that disability is tragic, sad, and maybe inspiring. But comedy is the genre of survival."

Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews Brian Trapp about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.

22/10/2025

"That damn soul is going to go someplace else. It’s going to shrug me off the way we shrug off our raincoats, overcoats, and Ulster coats."

This week's miCRo by Shikhandin pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to.

21/10/2025

Congratulations to contributor Paula Bohince on today's publication of A VIOLENCE with Princeton University Press!

A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as “beautiful and riveting” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

15/10/2025

Congratulations to former CR editor Brian Trapp! His much-anticipated debut novel, RANGE OF MOTION, publishes today with our friends at Acre Books .

14/10/2025

Congratulations to former CR editor AND contributor Christian Moody on today's release of LOST IN THE FOREST OF MECHANICAL BIRDS, the winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize!

For fans of George Saunders and Haruki Murakami, Christian Moody delivers his debut speculative short story collection, Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds ––tales of the strange beauty and shadowy fears that lurk beneath the surface of our everyday lives Best friends George and Elly start a

10/10/2025

Today on our site: playwrights (and CR contribs!) Dan O'Brien and christopher oscar peña in conversation with director and producer Mark Armstrong about the two's recently published play trilogies and more:

https://buff.ly/uHWshLH

08/10/2025

"I won't call it a detonator. But after pressing the button, I scamper around the refrigerator, taking cover behind layers of sheet metal and white plastic finish from the machine's invisible munitions."

In a fascinating miCRo essay, Fee takes us on a tour of the microwave's unexpected origin story.

06/10/2025

Congratulations to contributor Amit Majmudar -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books !

Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse & Proseby Amit Majmudar Orison Bookspaper / 274 pp. / $20.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-62-7Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books952-223-8373 / [email protected] Date: October 1, 2025 ABOUT THE BOOK Amit Majmudar's textual triptych Three Metamorph...

02/10/2025

We're pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards!

Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star," chosen by Michael Griffith
Jessica Cuello (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another," chosen by David Lazar
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments," chosen by Rebecca Lindenberg

Each will receive $1,000 and their work will be published in our Spring 2026 issue. See our site for the finalists and notes from the judges and winners:

https://buff.ly/PYRuALk

29/09/2025

As September draws to a close, we celebrate the inclusion of CR contributors (and a former editor!) in two excellent lists from CLMP : Hispanic Heritage Month and National Translation Month! Check out work by Cristi Donoso, M.E. Macuaga, Inger Christensen, and José Angel Araguz! https://buff.ly/6qJW4HI https://buff.ly/mEA8Prk