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Throughout this week, we’ll be introducing you to past Editors’ Prize winners. “You Think I Care” by Deborah Way was the first-place story in our 1995 contest. Like many of…    read more

One of my first workshops at the graduate level was led by a visiting poet who, emboldened by his temporary status, was, as my students might say, “off the chain”…    read more

The book world’s abuzz over news of the upcoming novel from James Frey. Perhaps you remember Oprah spitting his name with disdain. Frey wrote A Million Little Pieces in 2003,…    read more

Last week’s Poem of the Week, Charles Wright’s “Self Portrait,” was culled from the very first issue of TMR (way back in ’78) and it strikes me as particularly significant…    read more

The closing essay in the September 9 New York Times Book Review . . . lets Times readers in on the not widely known fact that Alfred A. Knopf once rejected Lolita–along with other well-known works by literary giants: Jorge Luis Borges, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, and James Baldwin. . . . But we actually published the Knopf readers’ reports urging rejection of all these major writers. And we did it seven years ago.

In the class I took this summer, History of the English Language, one of our assignments was to visit the “eggcorns” database as a means to understanding how languages, specifically English,…    read more

There is a disturbing misconception in the air these days that says if only we prepare enough, we can prevent tragedy.  Airports teem with Homeland Security officers.  Every local government…    read more

The Missouri Review has joined the community of individuals, bands, books, pets, places, etc. on MySpace.  You can view our profile at http://www.myspace.com/missourireview. To some of our readers, this announcement…    read more

As you peruse our blog these days, you might notice some new icons lurking at the bottom of the posts. We’ve added automated links for three popular social bookmarking sites:…    read more

Back in August, The Washington Post announced a new book from Ralph Ellison is forthcoming next year. The name should ring some bells. Surely one novel comes to mind for…    read more