The Georgia Review

In Memoriam, Barry Lopez

Collaborations, Water and Light

By Meghann Riepenhoff

I Want This to Be True

By Jenny Boully

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

By Radiclani Clytus

Collaborations, Water and Light

By Meghann Riepenhoff

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

By Radiclani Clytus

Current Issue

The Georgia Review’s Winter 2020 issue is now available, with new work from Terrance Hayes, Arthur Sze, Jenny Boully, Samuel R. Delany, Maud Casey, and many other compelling voices. The issue also includes a special section on this year’s winner and featured finalists of the Review’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, a selection of translated poems by Taiwanese author Sun Tzu-ping, and a portfolio of Meghann Riepenhoff’s modern cyanotypes of the natural world.

Explore the Issue

Fiction

A Door Swings Open

By Maud Casey

Essays

Delivery

By Jasmin Aviva Sandelson

Fiction

Memento Mori

By Enyeribe Ibegwam

Essays

I Want This to Be True

By Jenny Boully

Poetry

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It); Dark Eye Circles; & God Knows Our Secret...

By Sun Tzu-ping

Fiction

No Stories

By David Hayden

Poetry

The Story; Xī’ān Nocturne with Jasmine and Pears; Demolished Landscape with O...

By Anni Liu

Special Feature

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

By Vinod Kumar Shukla

Features

Fiction

A Door Swings Open

By Maud Casey

Essays

Delivery

By Jasmin Aviva Sandelson

Fiction

Memento Mori

By Enyeribe Ibegwam

Essays

I Want This to Be True

By Jenny Boully

Poetry

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It); Dark Eye Circles; & God Knows Our Secret...

By Sun Tzu-ping

Fiction

No Stories

By David Hayden

Poetry

The Story; Xī’ān Nocturne with Jasmine and Pears; Demolished Landscape with O...

By Anni Liu

Special Feature

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

By Vinod Kumar Shukla

Art

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

By Meghann Riepenhoff

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books, 15 August–8 November 2020, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (featuring an interview with Andrea Davis Pinkney)

By C. J. Bartunek

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

By Doron Langberg

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview by C.J. Bartunek)

By Eddie Arroyo

A Lower Deep

By Michi Meko

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

By Dhruvi Acharya

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

By Toyin Ojih Odutola

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

By María Berrio

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

By Cy Gavin

Reviews

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

By Bradley Bazzle

on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

By Selamawit D. Terrefe

Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som)

By Stephanie Burt

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

By Sandra Simonds

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

By Julie R. Enszer

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

By Kevin Clark

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

By Radiclani Clytus

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

By Diego Báez

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

By Michael Berlin

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

By Sueyeun Juliette Lee

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

By Julie Carlson

Reviews

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed...

By Bradley Bazzle

on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

By Selamawit D. Terrefe

Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by...

By Stephanie Burt

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

By Sandra Simonds

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

By Julie R. Enszer

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

By Kevin Clark

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

By Radiclani Clytus

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

By Diego Báez

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

By Michael Berlin

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

By Sueyeun Juliette Lee

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

By Julie Carlson

Evidence

On My Therapist, Late in This Life

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

Evidence

On My Therapist, Late in This Life

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

on Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

Imaginary Maps (on Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

In Memoriam, Barry Lopez

Collaborations, Water and Light

I Want This to Be True

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

In Memoriam, Barry Lopez

Collaborations, Water and Light

I Want This to Be True

Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran

A Door Swings Open

Delivery

Memento Mori

I Want This to Be True

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It); Dark Eye Circles; & God Knows Our Secret...

No Stories

The Story; Xī’ān Nocturne with Jasmine and Pears; Demolished Landscape with O...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

Features

A Door Swings Open

Delivery

Memento Mori

I Want This to Be True

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It); Dark Eye Circles; & God Knows Our Secret...

No Stories

The Story; Xī’ān Nocturne with Jasmine and Pears; Demolished Landscape with O...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

Art

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books, 15 August–8 November 2020, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (featuring an interview with Andrea Davis Pinkney)

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview by C.J. Bartunek)

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

Reviews