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

Karen Wilkin reviews the Art Students League’s Fairfield Porter exhibition: 1/2 It all seems straightforward and modest, but with longer acquaintance, Porter’s connection to the history of Western art becomes evident, as well as his audacity.

Louise Marburg reviews Melanie Pappadis Faranello's collection from Columbus State University Press: 1/3 Everybody Needs Something is the title of her thought-provoking debut story collection.⁠ I’d like to tack on a fitting subtitle: But They Probably Aren’t Going to Get It…

From “The Deer Mouse Berates Me” by Joan Murray: 1/3 Sleepless all night, you lay listening, listening, as if I might come thumping along the floorboards dragging a sack. As if I hadn’t slithered sylphlike a hundred times over, a single seed held lightly

In 2018, Spanish novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina documented his writing process over the summer he struggled to write one novel, gave up on the idea—only for another to quickly come in its place, resulting in Your Steps on the Stairs (Other Press, 2025). (1/3)

“Ascension” by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi: 1/3 My mother slips out of her skin to travel the hospital’s halls. She’s abandoned her body for a respite from monitors and the blessed nurses she swats with a gloved hand. She stretches:

Karen Wilkin reviews Hauser & Wirth’s Philip Guston exhibition, “Life with P.”: 1/3 The works mostly post-dated the family’s move to Woodstock in 1967 and seem to reflect on domesticity, sometimes to disturbing effect. The large paintings were intense and spectacular…

Lorna Knowles Blake reviews The Dance by Christian Wiman @fsgbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Wiman is a preternaturally gifted poet. Fluently moving from persona poem to parable to haiku and everything in between, there is seemingly nothing out of his prosodic range.

From "At the Grave of Tiem Duc Bui" by Charles Martin: In truth, though, being born turns out to be An inestimable gift that should amaze Us all by its improbability. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/at-t...

Louise Marburg reviews This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman from Dial Press: By the end I felt that seventeen [stories] was not enough…this is a wonderfully written and most entertaining book filled with characters I felt I already knew and know far better now. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-de...

Marina Harss reviews the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Firebird: 1/3 Taras and Holder’s Firebird is untouchable, unsentimental, sharp in every way, without an ounce of the eroticism of Fokine’s original concept.

“Blackbirds” by Jeffrey Harrison: 1/3 The European blackbird is a much better singer than the blackbirds at home, and now I’ve found that my own poems sound better in Italian. This morning I heard two of them read aloud, and they sounded

Brooke Allen reviews The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt @wwnorton.com 1/5 One of [Doctor Faustus'] most innovative features, hugely influential on all future drama (and film), was Marlowe’s invention of the soliloquy.

Erick Neher reviews Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived by Roundabout Theatre Company: 1/2 Coward’s central theme is neither adultery nor marital regret, but rather the complex web of love, jealousy, devotion and rivalry inherent in any intensely close friendship.

From “The Nearer Realm” by Rebecca Kilroy, second-prize winner of our 2025 short story contest: 1/2 He straightened up when he saw me and exclaimed, “Christ, but he’s risen!” I frowned. “The storm wasn’t so bad out my way. No danger of me being blown out to sea, surely.”

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From “The Salt Waking” by David Mason: We know the cold burns. That’s why we come to it with caution, immerse and remember to breathe. The salt abrasion is a kind of home. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/citi...

From “The Unmeasurable” by Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social, winner of our 2025 fiction contest: 1/ Iran, our home, is watered by the sacrificed blood of our martyrs, Sheena reads in Isfahan News on her iPhone’s cracked screen. The Peykan Uber spits her out in front of the historic Motamedi house.

Our summer issue is now online! Featuring Pegah Ouji & Rebecca Kilroy, the 1st & 2nd prize winners of our 2025 fiction contest; Antonio Muñoz Molina's diary entries from writing his 2019 novel; poems by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi & Jeffrey Harrison; & more! hudsonreview.com/issue/summer...

We are happy to announce the winners of our 2025 fiction contest! Congrats to Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social, who won 1st prize; congrats as well to Rebecca Kilroy, 2nd; Shahriar Shaams, 3rd; and Yara Zgheib, honorable mention. We are so honored to publish their work!

Karen Wilkin reviews “William Perehudoff: Boundless Color” at Berry Campbell: 1/4 The works on view explored the resonance of the raw materials of painting, as manipulated by a distinct personality.

From “These Days” by Robert Cording: 1/2 I like to walk with my kind, following the shoreline, one foot in front of the other, as if it were truly a plan to stay alive. What I like most is how we’ve lost all thought of our out-of-shape, misshapen bodies, weighed down by years