Priyatam Mudivarti, Interview Editor for the Review Review, had a chat with Ata in our South College office at the University of Massachusetts just the other day. So have a look, and learn something about our new Managing Editor, and about MR as well. And don't forget to stop in and say hey next time you're on campus.
Recent News
MELINDA MOUSTAKIS -- One of 5 Under 35!
12/14/2011
So we're a little slow here... but we just got word that in mid-November Melinda Moustakis -- who published a wonderful, searing story in MR 50.4 -- was named on the 2011 National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction list! Congratulations Melinda! This latest recognition comes for her linked story collection Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, which also won the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award in short fiction. The book...
Erri De Luca -- Wind in Your Face
11/17/2011
Wind in Your Face
Erri De Luca
Translated from Italian by Jim Hicks
The first few times, you feel the wind that bodies make as they run. You see their flight, coming towards you – your side scatters, and you stand aside, so they don’t end up on top of you. They run without speaking, not a single yell, their breath saved for...
Guyana Literary Awards
09/06/2011
Myriam J.A. Chancy, whose excerpt from The Loneliness of Angels was published in MR's Summer issue of Volume 51, was just awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award 2010 for Best Book of Fiction for her novel!
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised there and in Canada, Chancy’s first novel Spirit of Haiti (Mango Publications, 2003) was shortlisted for the Best First Book, Canada/...
John Vincent's After Spicer
07/14/2011
Wesleyan University Press recently released MR's own John Vincent's After Spicer, the first edited critical book dedicated to the work of Jack Spicer! The Huffington Post declared it as "one of the most...
MR ANNOUNCES CHAMETZKY PRIZE WINNER
07/08/2011
The editors of the Massachusetts Review are proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Jules Chametzky Translation Prize: Rebecca Gaye Howell for her translation, with Husam Qaisi, of excerpts from Iraqi poet Amal al-Jubouri's Hagar before the Occupation/Hagar after the Occupation. This translation from Arabic into English appeared in the journal’s Winter 2010 issue (5104).
Rebecca Gayle Howell’s poems and translations have graced the pages of Ninth Letter, Ecotone, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review,...
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