Margot Livesey recommends Stranger from Across the Sea, by Regina McBride (Green City Books, 2024). “As soon as Violet O’Halloran arrives at St. Dymphna’s School and meets the blind girl, Indira Sharma, I was captivated by this evocative novel set in Ireland and New York. McBride’s characters are so full of longing and passion and I couldn’t wait…
Jay Neugeboren, After Camus, a novel (Madville Publishing, November 2024) Jay Neugeboren, Whatever Happened to Frankie King, a graphic novel illustrated by Eli Neugeboren (Graphic Mundi, November 2024)
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation …” —Gravesite of President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), Arlington National Cemetery (reinterment 1967), Quoting JFK’s Inaugural Address (1961) “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou heareth the sound thereof,…
1. Lavabo y Espejo, by Antonio López García, is a painting of a bathroom sink and mirror. The sink, fused to the wall, floats. Its shadow grows west. The mirror above waits, empty, reflecting no person, only the square tiles of the opposite wall. On a transparent shelf between sink and mirror sit tools meant for…
Richard Tillinghast, Blue If Only I Could Tell You (White Pine Press, September 2022).
If there’s one thing you learn working on a carnival, it’s how to be invisible. Despite all that bling and zip and wow, a carny’s goal is to straddle the distance between spectacle and crowd: to entice people toward the ticket booth, then slip into the background. In my family, it’s a long-standing tradition. Tricksters…
Laura van den Berg recommends Planes Flying Over a Monster,by Daniel Saldaña París (Catapult, August 2024). “Daniel Saldaña París writes about cities as labyrinths; each essay in this marvelous collection leads readers to corridors where the intimate and the cosmic intersect.” DeWitt Henry recommends Joy Ride, by Ron Slate (Carnegie Melon Press, 2023). “Slate’s third collection is divided between…
Robert Pinsky, Proverbs of Limbo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2024) Margot Livesey, The Road from Belhaven (Knopf, 2024) David M. St. John, Prayer for My Daughter (Walton Well Press, October 2024)
Ploughshares is pleased to present Andre Dubus III with the sixth annual Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction for his short story “Gary’s Way,” which appeared in the Summer 2023 issue, guest-edited by Tom Perrotta. The $2,500 prize, sponsored by longtime patron Hunter C. Bourne III and selected by our editors, honors a short story published in…
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