Bruce Whiteman reviews Cameo Appearance by Mary Jo Salter @aaknopf.bsky.social: 1/2 A poet can hear a common phrase and see through to a more ramified meaning, in this case, to the realization that, looked at in one way, most of us only make cameo appearances on the planet.⁠

O’Farrell’s prose consistently scintillates, like light on water. Several times I found myself putting asterisks next to passages of fine prose. —Susan Balée reviews Land by Maggie O’Farrell @aaknopf.bsky.social hudsonreview.com/2026/10/land...

"Poetry Enters the Room" like a cat, and just like that I must concur: I’ve got nothing better to do. Long may she lay in my lap and purr. —by Wendy Videlock hudsonreview.com/2026/10/the-...

One month left to submit fiction! 10,000 words max, open to both US & international submissions, open to translations. No AI. Submit at hudsonreview.com/submissions. It’s free to submit. Deadline is 11/30/26. We look forward to reading your work! Full guidelines at hudsonreview.com/about-us/reg...

From “Xanthus: A Hippiad” by A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social (the Iliad as told by a horse!): 1/4 But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.

Our autumn issue is now online! Featuring our short fiction contest 3rd-prize winner Shahriar Shaams and honorable mention Yara Zgheib; a retelling of the Iliad by A. E. Stallings; and poetry by Rebecca Foust and Emma Bolden; and more! hudsonreview.com

Lorna Knowles Blake on If You Love That Lady by Maya C. Popa @wwnorton.com: Popa’s poems are gracefully constructed, formally varied and elegant…I might argue that the entire collection is a love letter to poetry and the world it can make or re-make out of this “extravagant, fatal, blinking life.”

Louise Marburg reviews Vigil by George Saunders from Random House: 1/2 Vigil is part political statement and part comedy, and I’m not sure it works as either. Climate change isn’t funny…and I wondered if I was missing a point beyond the obvious fact that capitalism is destroying the earth.

Erick Neher reviews Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner: 1/4 There’s an inevitability to Giant, a lack of surprise. That’s not necessarily a complaint. It’s a wonderful watch, full of intelligent dialogue and performances,

“Tongue-Tie” by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi : 1/3 I sweep my finger gently, underneath his tongue, stretching the lingual frenulum, a tight fold of tissue shaping his organ of speech and taste into a heart. Lingual: Relating to,

Lorna Knowles Blake reviews We Interrupt This Broadcast by Gregory Orr @wwnorton.com Now in his seventy-ninth year, the poet’s mood is reflective and elegiac as he ponders the state of the world and its disconnects—species extinction, extreme weather, the pandemic. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/our-...

From “Restos” by Mark Jacobs: 1/2 It turns out that Lina Luz is correct, Stroessner’s torture consultant is now sheltering under the Good Shepherd roof. Ticio speaks with the deputy administrator, and then the administrator. Both are troubled by the presence of Caceres but fall back on

Brooke Allen reviews The Dream Factory, by Daniel Swift from FSG: 1/4 Swift’s assumption of a natural division between art, craft, and trade seems dubious…When has the realm of art not belonged within the world of work, at least if the artist aims to earn a living from his work,

From “A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense” by David Mason: 1/2 …The walls moan like an out-of-tune brass orchestra, keeping us up at night. Or is it the state of the world that keeps us up the drawn-out anxious sense of something wrong because men who should care for the people have decided not to care?

Marina Harss reviews Tiler Peck’s Symphonie Espagnole, New York City Ballet: 1/3 Peck’s Symphonie Espagnole has guts and scale; she is a more than proficient choreographer, with the skill to move great numbers of dancers around the stage and create a satisfying effect while doing so.

Louise Marburg reviews The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín @scribnerbooks.bsky.social: Every one of [the stories] is gorgeously written…The News from Dublin is un-put-downable, a collection you can inhale in a day. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-de...

From “Sox in the Underworld” by Joan Murray: 1/3 I left my mark on the hand-carved Aubusson, and I shredded the hand-knotted fringe of the kilim. But whose bright idea was it to put those first-edition volumes in a shallow rectangular box and leave it on

Lorna Knowles Blake reviews Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? by Donna Masini @wwnorton.com: Donna Masini’s fourth collection of poems is a fast-paced book that touches on a host of subjects—from ants to dictionaries to clams to philosophy—that engage her restless, quirky imagination.

Karen Wilkin reviews Giuseppe Penone at Gagosian: 1/4 Cork trees, we learn, are carefully stripped of their outer bark every nine years; it then regrows, a cycle that makes the material especially appealing to Penone, whose work is always about the passage of time and often about growth.

From “The Next New Architecture Thing” by Witold Rybczynski: 1/3 Bouts of architectural uncertainty are not historically unprecedented. They usually occur when the aesthetic problems of a particular period appear to have been solved, when tried-and-true solutions have been codified…

Louise Marburg on Louise Erdrich's Python’s Kiss @harperbooks.bsky.social: Reading them is like entering into another time that is not exactly the past, nor quite the present…Now and then I would put Python’s Kiss down mid-story simply to appreciate its singularity. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-de...

We’re open for regular fiction submissions! 10,000 words max, no AI. Submit online at hudsonreview.com/submissions by 11/30. As always, it’s free to submit. We look forward to reading your work! Full guidelines at hudsonreview.com/about-us/reg...

From "Love Letter to My Apartment" by Michele Herman: Dear best thousand square feet of thrift shop, warehouse, hardware store, archive, costume department fully stocked with my size⁠— here I can get my hands on whatever I believe I need right this minute or ever… hudsonreview.com/2026/07/love...

Karen Wilkin reviews Leon Kossoff at Luhring Augustine Chelsea: 1/3 The sheer impact of the artist’s densely loaded, ferociously worked paintings was impossible to ignore. Somehow, sludgy color and suffocating amounts of pigment became irresistible and deeply engaging…

From “Woman Raking Leaves in Barry Park” by Charles Martin: The woman and the monks both understand The momentary tenure of all art, Whether we make it out of breath, or sand, Or even these leaves, which, as I depart A thoughtless wind gust presently unweaves. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/at-t...

From “Citizens of the Wind” by David Mason: 1/2 A snow-colored cloud shades the bay, but beyond it the ice-blue waves burn in another realm of light, a kind of brightness, a kind of joy opening my eyes, setting a course for no known point in land or sea.

From “Colorful Circle Center Whole” by D. T. Holt: 1/2 My Dutch uncle—the Jesuit⁠— he told me I ought to read Oscar Wilde on account of he was incarcerated. And it occurred to me: No,

Lorna Knowles Blake reviews It Looks Like a Man by Heather McHugh @weslpress.bsky.social: Approaching McHugh’s poems can be like stepping through Alice’s looking glass. The surface is seldom what it seems. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/our-...

From “Trying to Write a First Love Poem at Seventy” by Brian Culhane: 1/2 Hours into it and no likely start, Pen poised over many a crossed-out line. Fool, look in thy heart and write—fine advice, I suppose, from courtly love until now, But my ardent heart beats on in silence.

David Mason on Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel, by Frances Wilson @fsgbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Frances Wilson is one of our boldest and most innovative biographers because she understands the fundamental problem of her art. She writes biography as essay, as attempt, and she is particularly