The Review invites you to its first events of the year—the presentation of the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry by Vice-Chancellor Pearigen, and the lecture on Patricia Smith’s body of work.

In the way that familiar words become strange when we stare at them extendedly, the singular letter can be unfaithful—to meaning, to a memory, to a friend.

As someone who loves intergenerational narratives but fears exploitation and cringe, I find “Peking Duck” comforting. It’s relentless and tender at the same time.

Howe instructs us to look, but look differently, gaze askew. To listen, but hear as if from a distance.

The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Patricia Smith is the recipient of the 2023 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

It’s the summer, then, of forest fires. The summer of smoke.

Roll out your towel and kick back. Four new selections from the staff of the Sewanee Review.

To read Drury is to surrender to a slower, quieter timeline.

In a novel preoccupied with phantasms, hauntings, secrets, permeable boundaries, and alternative histories, who’s to say where the real starts and ends?