The Georgia Review

Featured

• Studies in Darkness by Traci Brimhall

  “There’s something about black,” said Georgia O’Keeffe. “You feel hidden away in it.” Louise Nevelson said she fell in love with black: “You can be quiet and it can contain the whole thing.” Somehow this is true for me, . . .

• The Novelist’s Event: Fact, Fiction, and a Writer’s Search for a Universal Subject by James Reston Jr.

  On November 18, 1978, an event unique in human history took place. In a remote region of Guyana, an elemental, disintegrating country just above the equator in South America, . . .

• Hellion by Julia Elliott

  “Y’all put that gator right back where you found him or I’ll pepper your asses with 177s.”

  I aimed my Daisy right at Butch, the more chicken-shit of the pair.  . . .

• Afternoon Sun at the End of Summer by Emily Tuszynska

   

  The children wade naked and thigh-deep

  in stone-colored water. They duck under

  and come up flinging drops from their hair.

  Wind raises gooseflesh on their arms. . . .