Featured Prose
Featured Prose
Mar 22 2024
“Vegetable Stories” by Rohini Sunderam
In Rohini Sunderam’s “Vegetable Stories,” first published in TMR issue 45.3 (Fall 2022), an unconsummated romance buds, flourishes, withers, and endures in dormant form for two people who communicate their feelings… read more
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Mar 15 2024
An Interview with Genevieve Abravanel
Recently, TMR intern Shayla Malone interviewed Genevieve Abravanel about “Wilderness Survival,” which tells the story of a recently widowed mom and her young daughter, who becomes an avid follower of a… read more
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Feb 23 2024
“Song Night” by Robert Long Foreman
Parents often worry, “Am I doing this right?”—a question that takes on humorous complexity in Robert Long Foreman’s “Song Night,” which tells the story of a pot-smoking father who discovers… read more
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Dec 08 2023
“Wilderness Survival” by Genevieve Abravanel
In “Wilderness Survival,” which first appeared in TMR issue 46.3 (Fall 2023), a recently widowed mom does her best to support her young daughter, who becomes an avid student of wilderness… read more
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Nov 10 2023
An Interview with Grace Plowden
Recently, TMR intern Michael Fegan interviewed Grace Plowden about her essay “Naff: A Rumination on Taste and Tastelessness,” which was a runner-up for the 2022 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Plowden’s… read more
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Nov 10 2023
Interview with Jenny Xie
In the following conversation, writers Jenny Xie and Blake Sanz discuss how physical contact “filters” our limited knowledge of other people. Touch is a basic human need, but it’s also… read more
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Oct 13 2023
“Naff: A Rumination on Taste and Tastelessness” by Grace Plowden
Taste has long been used to reinforce hierarchies of power and class—a fact that Grace Plowden interrogates in this personal essay on the conscious cultivation of bad taste. A runner-up… read more
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Sep 15 2023
“On Defeat and Diego” by Alexander Ramirez
In his essay “On Defeat and Diego,” a runner-up for the 30th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, Alexander Ramirez discusses the world of competitive boxing and connected events in… read more
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Jul 21 2023
“The Last Summer” by Amy Stuber
Each year, the Missouri Review honors one fiction writer from the previous volume year by awarding them the William Peden Prize in fiction, named in honor of the late William… read more
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Apr 13 2023
“Naming Ceremony” by Mona Susan Power
Mona Susan Power’s powerful and authentic story “Naming Ceremony” was a fiction runner-up in the 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize contest. The story has been adapted as part of… read more