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In “Treading Water,” novelist and essayist Dionne Irving recounts her experience of racial battle fatigue in the context of her lifelong relationship with water and the fraught history of race…    read more

—Originally published in The Missouri Review, Volume 14, Number 3:  A Man Between Nations: The Diary of Peter Pitchlynn 1828 – 1837 from the Foreword This issue’s “History as Literature”…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Record” by Simon Shieh! Simon Shieh is a poet and educator living in Beijing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Spittoon Literary Magazine,…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Rise and Fall of the Tyrant” by Leah Umansky! Leah Umansky is the author of two full length collections, The Barbarous Century (2018),…    read more

The Missouri Review has partnered with Academy Award-winning studio NEON to present SHIRLEY, a new film starring Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale) in which a famous horror writer finds inspiration…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Bus Shelters Are Graveyards” by Shamar Hill! Shamar Hill, a Cave Canem Fellow, is the recipient of numerous awards including a New York…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Some Hands Are There” by Samyak Shertok! Samyak Shertok’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Friend, Whatever You’re Thinking” by Suphil Lee Park! Suphil Lee Park was born and grew up in South Korea. She holds a BA…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “If A Realtor Asks What I’m Looking for, Here Is What I Will Not Tell Her” by Sarah Carson! Sarah Carson is the…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s new online-only prose anthology, features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. Our latest selection is Daniel Vollaro’s poetic memoir about the…    read more