Selected readings from the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

TSR Spring 2018 Audio Gallery

The confluence of politics and a board game becomes a recipe for upheaval in Andy Plattner’s story “Landslide.” 

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Landslide" by Andy Plattner

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Blows" by Elisabeth Murawski

In her reading of “For Alun Lewis, Poet (1915–1944),” Elisabeth Murawski considers the death of a man who remains perhaps the most famous poet of the Second World War.

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"For Alun Lewis" by Elisabeth Murawski

In “With an Ear to the Earth” and “Primary, Primal,” Leah Poole Osowski plumbs for meaning in the western sky, the muscularity of mountain lions, and the quiet violence of rivers.

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Primary, Primal" by Leah Poole Osowski

"With An Ear To The Earth" by Leah Poole Osowski

From mysterious, plum-sized bruises to a forgotten trip home from war, Nancy Chen Long’s “Memory Reel” is a meditation on the myriad ways we forget and misremember.  

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Memory Reel" by Nancy Chen Long

With her reading of “Ordinary Psalm in the Anthropocene,” Julia B. Levine navigates the complex emotional landscape of grief and aging. 

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Ordinary Psalm In The Anthropocene" by Julia Levine

In her essay “Holy Body,” Courtney Zoffness discusses Jewish ritual baths and the complicated dynamics of becoming a surrogate mother. 

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Holy Body" by Courtney Zoffness

Ed Falco’s reading is a portal into the danger and grace a man can find while driving boldly “In the Kentucky Mountains.” 

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"In The Kentucky Mountains" by Ed Falco

In “Nojuku” and “On the Outskirts of Matsumae,” Freeman Rogers patches together a language of surprising connections while traveling through Japan. 

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"On The Outskirts Of Matsumae" by Freeman Rogers

"Nojuku" by Freeman Rogers

Benjamin Morris sends us spinning in his readings of “Palindrome,” about a lover, twirling, and “Gravitron 3000,” about a ride at the fair. 

From the spring 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Please visit http://bit.ly/2HFJ7IL for more information.

"Gravitron 3000" by Benjamin Morris

"Palindrome" by Benjamin Morris

The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premiere literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. We publish a diverse array of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the country’s—and the world’s—most respected contemporary writers.

Established at Louisiana State University, The Southern Review immediately became a literary tastemaker. The launch of The Southern Review came about "On a bright Sunday afternoon in late February, 1935," when Louisiana State University’s president drove his black Cadillac to Robert Penn Warren’s house in Baton Rouge to invite him, his wife, and their friend Albert Erskine on a drive to discuss creating a magazine of "distinctive character and quality." Cleanth Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin were consulted; both joined the editorial staff. The Southern Review’s first series ran 1935 to 1942 before closing due to the war. In 1965, the journal was revived under the editorship of Lewis P. Simpson and Donald E. Stanford, who launched the second series to great acclaim. LSU Press became The Southern Review’s publisher in 2011, allowing the journal to undertake new initiatives, such as reaching readers through a digital version in addition to the print quarterly.

TSR Spring 2018 Audio Gallery

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