President Trump, in a Time magazine interview, said he regrets nominating each of the three Supreme Court justices he tapped during his first term.

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It was the week before Halloween, and too many teachers were out sick. By that point in the fall, our academic leaders had been juggling absences for days, trying to...

Brandon McNeice, Hrishita Ghosh, Khayelihle Bhengu, Oluwanifemi Bakarehave,Patty Paine, and Susmita Mukherjee come together to give us NUNUM’s Fall 2026 issue.

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Start with the cars parked deepest in shadow. You tell him to keep the can low so it doesn’t bang his knees. Don’t drag it. Don’t swing it. If somebody looks out, you’re helping. He nods like that set...

Last year, we tried something new. A small group of middle schoolers from my K–8 school in Southwest Philadelphia climbed into a rented fifteen-passenger van and left their city blocks...

Still it waves. Still it sings.

Kingsessing in Southwest Philadelphia is a low country of porches and brick. A long green edge where Cobbs Creek keeps the seasons and the city sets its weight down

Some BMW drivers were surprised to find Spider-Man appearing on their vehicle screens as part of a promotion for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." Here's why it's happening and why some owners are frustrat...

About a year ago, I decided to begin submitting my writing to literary journals and magazines with real intention.

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A Southwest Philadelphia educator offers a most patriotic defense of birthright citizenship

Over the past couple of years, since I started this newsletter and began, somehow, to place a few pieces in actual publications, I have had at least a dozen colleagues ask me some version of the same ...

SmokeLong‘s “Flash, Back” series asks writers to discuss flash fiction that may be obscure or printed before the term “flash fiction” became popular, and tell us how these older or not widely known wo...

Teachers know students intensely and temporarily. They are given access to crucial chapters but rarely the whole book. A child arrives with all the urgency of the present tense. For a season, that chi...

SmokeLong‘s “Flash, Back” series asks writers to discuss flash fiction that may be obscure or printed before the term “flash fiction” became popular, and tell us how these older or not widely known wo...

"...they start and tremble, they call us by our name, and as soon as we have recognized them the spell is broken. Delivered by us, they have overcome death and return to share our life.”

To say “I had depression” is true in the same way that saying “there was a fire” is true. It names the event, but not the smell of the room afterward. Not the melted plastic. Not the blackened studs. ...

by Brandon McNeice

We are ready to give ourselves. And yet we find that we do not know what part of ourselves to offer—or worse, that the part we have to give is not wanted.

The rink sounds older at night. Compressors hum behind the boards; edges hiss in tight half-moons; a stick taps twice—code, courtesy, warning. In Kladno, under low municipal light, number 68 leans ove...

The Winter 2026 edition of the Under Review

The District’s plan to transform Philly’s schools includes 20 school closures. The responsibility for repercussions can't just fall on parents

Reviewed by Brandon McNeice A cheap lime green phone charger sits on the counter in the flash fiction “Over There” like an accusation, a small object that somehow contains a whole day. Patricia Q. Bid...

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When the same symbol keeps emerging in such different scenes—Hebrew scripture, neighborhood storm drains, progressive street theater, alt-right image boards—it is worth asking why. We are not choosing...