A 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art by emerging and established authors since 1959. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
Fall is upon us, and with it comes our latest issue!! 🎃🍁
Featuring debut author Jahanara Ahmad, previous contributors Shams Mazen Rajab, Robert Pastore, & Nicholas Wong, art from Camille Turner, & two new performance pieces!
Buy your copy today: general-umass.nbsstore.net/m…
"The images in the poem are raw and dark, almost like a nightmare or a suspense film."
#Poet and #translator Anna Yin on the work of Yen Ai-Lin, starting a literary magazine that featured both Chinese and Canadian writers, and more! massreview.org/2026/09/29/in…
"We memorize the names of villages we have never seen as though they are part of our bloodstream. We love homes we never lived in, but inhabit through the portal of our grandparents’ love for them." - Asma Abu Hasanein, 'Portal of Return' @MassReviewmassreview.org/2026/09/18/po…
"The key bears testimony to homes once full of life, and to families who left believing they would come back within days."
Asma Abu Hasanein on the #Palestine villages left behind, and the portals to the past that still live on, for our #PublicAffairs: massreview.org/2026/09/18/po…
Fall is upon us, and with it comes our latest issue!! 🎃🍁
Featuring debut author Jahanara Ahmad, previous contributors Shams Mazen Rajab, Robert Pastore, & Nicholas Wong, art from Camille Turner, & two new performance pieces!
Buy your copy today: general-umass.nbsstore.net/m…
Pieces from M. E. O'Brien, Sati Mookherjee, Jaye Kranz, Shara McCallum, Kevin D. Jordan, and Morteza Barzegar (transl. by AJ Javaheri) are available to read in-full online:
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"Some form of natural chaos that batters you from all sides, leaving destruction far worse than you planned for."
#Writer Emily Wojcik looks at Lorraine Boissoneault's hybrid memoir, BODY WEATHER, for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2026/09/09/st…
"So let’s honor the workers so deft/ From whose hands we enjoy our beer drafts./ For without laboring,/ There’s indeed no fine thing."
Marsha Bryant shares some #LaborDay brew reviews in honor of her Granddad Henry. Cheers to the Workers! massreview.org/2026/09/03/be…
ALT Can of beer featuring an illustrated skeleton and the text "Working Party" set next to a glass of beer, both on a table with a roofing hammer
"I’m an octogenarian child trying to embrace my second childhood: leading with imagination, as children do."
Joan Cambridge-Mayfield on place and presence, alongside Jeremy Jacob Peretz on their "crazy quilt" poetry practice, for our #interviews series: massreview.org/2026/09/01/in…
ALT Author photos of Joan Cambridge-Mayfield, a Black woman with grey hair, a red tie-dye shirt, and pointing her finger at the camera, and Jeremy Jacob Peretz, a Black man wearing glasses, a blue shirt, and a grey knit hat.
"You would hear this onslaught of language going and going and going. And you’d realize this is what our culture is: these songs, these words, this language."
Patricia Waters on the language of #Tennessee and Thomas Hardy, in our interview with the #poet: massreview.org/2026/08/25/in…
"Violence escalates, then normalizes with consistency and efficiency, until entire societies are destroyed."
Yoav Litvin on the Wired to Steal model and #Fanon for our #PublicAffairs series: massreview.org/2026/08/21/wi…
ALT A diagram of the W2S model; Text reads as clockwise starting at 9 oclock, Normalization, Psychological conditioning, Hierarchy, Violence, with arrows connecting each word in a cycle. In the center of the circle, text reads "Greed"
"I see my life and personal experiences as the moving pieces I can use to tell stories. All stories are possible outcomes or possible universes."
Interview with Jennifer Delgadillo, author of "The Interpreter" from the summer issue. Up on the blog and substack now!
"What’s at stake in the act of translating? I need to be aware of the process that informs the writing of the poems to be able to continue the process."
MELISSA MELPIGNANO in our latest interview, available to read or listen to below:
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And our Honorable Mention goes to Elisabeth Jaquette, translator of Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq’s “Scenes from Behind the Siege” from our Winter 2025 issue!
ALT Photograph of Chametzky Prize Honorable Mention Elisabeth Jaquette/ Elisabeth is seated and slightly turned from a wooden desk and backdrop with daylight coming through the window, and there are papers in front of her.
Thank you so much! What a privilege to share this with Amanda and José Luís, and congratulations to Elisabeth Jaquette and Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq. We’re absolutely thrilled, and so grateful to the judges and everyone at The Massachusetts Review! ❤️
ALT Headshots of Chametzky Prize winners Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana. Amanda is wearing a black shirt and standing in front of a brick building. Elton is wearing a white button down and standing in front of a blurred street and storefront.
ALT Headshots of Chametzky Prize winners Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana. Amanda is wearing a black shirt and standing in front of a brick building. Elton is wearing a white button down and standing in front of a blurred street and storefront.
And our Honorable Mention goes to Elisabeth Jaquette, translator of Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq’s “Scenes from Behind the Siege” from our Winter 2025 issue!
ALT Photograph of Chametzky Prize Honorable Mention Elisabeth Jaquette/ Elisabeth is seated and slightly turned from a wooden desk and backdrop with daylight coming through the window, and there are papers in front of her.