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Quarterly magazine of literature and the arts, founded in 1948. Poetry, fiction, essays, and more.

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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Erick Neher reviews Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner: 1/4 There’s an inevitability to Giant, a lack of surprise. That’s not necessarily a complaint. It’s a wonderful watch, full of intelligent dialogue and performances,
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Tongue-Tie” by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi : 1/3 I sweep my finger gently, underneath his tongue, stretching the lingual frenulum, a tight fold of tissue shaping his organ of speech and taste into a heart. Lingual: Relating to,
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lorna Knowles Blake reviews We Interrupt This Broadcast by Gregory Orr @wwnorton.com Now in his seventy-ninth year, the poet’s mood is reflective and elegiac as he ponders the state of the world and its disconnects—species extinction, extreme weather, the pandemic. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/our-...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From “Restos” by Mark Jacobs: 1/2 It turns out that Lina Luz is correct, Stroessner’s torture consultant is now sheltering under the Good Shepherd roof. Ticio speaks with the deputy administrator, and then the administrator. Both are troubled by the presence of Caceres but fall back on
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brooke Allen reviews The Dream Factory, by Daniel Swift from FSG: 1/4 Swift’s assumption of a natural division between art, craft, and trade seems dubious…When has the realm of art not belonged within the world of work, at least if the artist aims to earn a living from his work,
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From “A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense” by David Mason: 1/2 …The walls moan like an out-of-tune brass orchestra, keeping us up at night. Or is it the state of the world that keeps us up the drawn-out anxious sense of something wrong because men who should care for the people have decided not to care?
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Marina Harss reviews Tiler Peck’s Symphonie Espagnole, New York City Ballet: 1/3 Peck’s Symphonie Espagnole has guts and scale; she is a more than proficient choreographer, with the skill to move great numbers of dancers around the stage and create a satisfying effect while doing so.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Louise Marburg reviews The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín @scribnerbooks.bsky.social: Every one of [the stories] is gorgeously written…The News from Dublin is un-put-downable, a collection you can inhale in a day. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-de...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From “Sox in the Underworld” by Joan Murray: 1/3 I left my mark on the hand-carved Aubusson, and I shredded the hand-knotted fringe of the kilim. But whose bright idea was it to put those first-edition volumes in a shallow rectangular box and leave it on
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lorna Knowles Blake reviews Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? by Donna Masini @wwnorton.com: Donna Masini’s fourth collection of poems is a fast-paced book that touches on a host of subjects—from ants to dictionaries to clams to philosophy—that engage her restless, quirky imagination.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Karen Wilkin reviews Giuseppe Penone at Gagosian: 1/4 Cork trees, we learn, are carefully stripped of their outer bark every nine years; it then regrows, a cycle that makes the material especially appealing to Penone, whose work is always about the passage of time and often about growth.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From “The Next New Architecture Thing” by Witold Rybczynski: 1/3 Bouts of architectural uncertainty are not historically unprecedented. They usually occur when the aesthetic problems of a particular period appear to have been solved, when tried-and-true solutions have been codified…
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Louise Marburg on Louise Erdrich's Python’s Kiss @harperbooks.bsky.social: Reading them is like entering into another time that is not exactly the past, nor quite the present…Now and then I would put Python’s Kiss down mid-story simply to appreciate its singularity. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-de...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We’re open for regular fiction submissions! 10,000 words max, no AI. Submit online at hudsonreview.com/submissions by 11/30. As always, it’s free to submit. We look forward to reading your work! Full guidelines at hudsonreview.com/about-us/reg...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From "Love Letter to My Apartment" by Michele Herman: Dear best thousand square feet of thrift shop, warehouse, hardware store, archive, costume department fully stocked with my size⁠— here I can get my hands on whatever I believe I need right this minute or ever… hudsonreview.com/2026/07/love...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Karen Wilkin reviews Leon Kossoff at Luhring Augustine Chelsea: 1/3 The sheer impact of the artist’s densely loaded, ferociously worked paintings was impossible to ignore. Somehow, sludgy color and suffocating amounts of pigment became irresistible and deeply engaging…
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
From “Woman Raking Leaves in Barry Park” by Charles Martin: The woman and the monks both understand The momentary tenure of all art, Whether we make it out of breath, or sand, Or even these leaves, which, as I depart A thoughtless wind gust presently unweaves. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/at-t...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From “Citizens of the Wind” by David Mason: 1/2 A snow-colored cloud shades the bay, but beyond it the ice-blue waves burn in another realm of light, a kind of brightness, a kind of joy opening my eyes, setting a course for no known point in land or sea.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From “Colorful Circle Center Whole” by D. T. Holt: 1/2 My Dutch uncle—the Jesuit⁠— he told me I ought to read Oscar Wilde on account of he was incarcerated. And it occurred to me: No,
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lorna Knowles Blake reviews It Looks Like a Man by Heather McHugh @weslpress.bsky.social: Approaching McHugh’s poems can be like stepping through Alice’s looking glass. The surface is seldom what it seems. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/our-...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From “Trying to Write a First Love Poem at Seventy” by Brian Culhane: 1/2 Hours into it and no likely start, Pen poised over many a crossed-out line. Fool, look in thy heart and write—fine advice, I suppose, from courtly love until now, But my ardent heart beats on in silence.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
David Mason on Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel, by Frances Wilson @fsgbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Frances Wilson is one of our boldest and most innovative biographers because she understands the fundamental problem of her art. She writes biography as essay, as attempt, and she is particularly
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Karen Wilkin reviews the Art Students League’s Fairfield Porter exhibition: 1/2 It all seems straightforward and modest, but with longer acquaintance, Porter’s connection to the history of Western art becomes evident, as well as his audacity.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Louise Marburg reviews Melanie Pappadis Faranello's collection from Columbus State University Press: 1/3 Everybody Needs Something is the title of her thought-provoking debut story collection.⁠ I’d like to tack on a fitting subtitle: But They Probably Aren’t Going to Get It…
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
From “The Deer Mouse Berates Me” by Joan Murray: 1/3 Sleepless all night, you lay listening, listening, as if I might come thumping along the floorboards dragging a sack. As if I hadn’t slithered sylphlike a hundred times over, a single seed held lightly
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In 2018, Spanish novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina documented his writing process over the summer he struggled to write one novel, gave up on the idea—only for another to quickly come in its place, resulting in Your Steps on the Stairs (Other Press, 2025). (1/3)
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Ascension” by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi: 1/3 My mother slips out of her skin to travel the hospital’s halls. She’s abandoned her body for a respite from monitors and the blessed nurses she swats with a gloved hand. She stretches:
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Karen Wilkin reviews Hauser & Wirth’s Philip Guston exhibition, “Life with P.”: 1/3 The works mostly post-dated the family’s move to Woodstock in 1967 and seem to reflect on domesticity, sometimes to disturbing effect. The large paintings were intense and spectacular…
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lorna Knowles Blake reviews The Dance by Christian Wiman @fsgbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Wiman is a preternaturally gifted poet. Fluently moving from persona poem to parable to haiku and everything in between, there is seemingly nothing out of his prosodic range.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
From "At the Grave of Tiem Duc Bui" by Charles Martin: In truth, though, being born turns out to be An inestimable gift that should amaze Us all by its improbability. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/at-t...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Louise Marburg reviews This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman from Dial Press: By the end I felt that seventeen [stories] was not enough…this is a wonderfully written and most entertaining book filled with characters I felt I already knew and know far better now. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/a-de...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Marina Harss reviews the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Firebird: 1/3 Taras and Holder’s Firebird is untouchable, unsentimental, sharp in every way, without an ounce of the eroticism of Fokine’s original concept.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Blackbirds” by Jeffrey Harrison: 1/3 The European blackbird is a much better singer than the blackbirds at home, and now I’ve found that my own poems sound better in Italian. This morning I heard two of them read aloud, and they sounded
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brooke Allen reviews The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt @wwnorton.com 1/5 One of [Doctor Faustus'] most innovative features, hugely influential on all future drama (and film), was Marlowe’s invention of the soliloquy.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Erick Neher reviews Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived by Roundabout Theatre Company: 1/2 Coward’s central theme is neither adultery nor marital regret, but rather the complex web of love, jealousy, devotion and rivalry inherent in any intensely close friendship.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From “The Nearer Realm” by Rebecca Kilroy, second-prize winner of our 2025 short story contest: 1/2 He straightened up when he saw me and exclaimed, “Christ, but he’s risen!” I frowned. “The storm wasn’t so bad out my way. No danger of me being blown out to sea, surely.”
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
From “The Salt Waking” by David Mason: We know the cold burns. That’s why we come to it with caution, immerse and remember to breathe. The salt abrasion is a kind of home. hudsonreview.com/2026/07/citi...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
From “The Unmeasurable” by Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social, winner of our 2025 fiction contest: 1/ Iran, our home, is watered by the sacrificed blood of our martyrs, Sheena reads in Isfahan News on her iPhone’s cracked screen. The Peykan Uber spits her out in front of the historic Motamedi house.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our summer issue is now online! Featuring Pegah Ouji & Rebecca Kilroy, the 1st & 2nd prize winners of our 2025 fiction contest; Antonio Muñoz Molina's diary entries from writing his 2019 novel; poems by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi & Jeffrey Harrison; & more! hudsonreview.com/issue/summer...
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are happy to announce the winners of our 2025 fiction contest! Congrats to Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social, who won 1st prize; congrats as well to Rebecca Kilroy, 2nd; Shahriar Shaams, 3rd; and Yara Zgheib, honorable mention. We are so honored to publish their work!
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Karen Wilkin reviews “William Perehudoff: Boundless Color” at Berry Campbell: 1/4 The works on view explored the resonance of the raw materials of painting, as manipulated by a distinct personality.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
From “These Days” by Robert Cording: 1/2 I like to walk with my kind, following the shoreline, one foot in front of the other, as if it were truly a plan to stay alive. What I like most is how we’ve lost all thought of our out-of-shape, misshapen bodies, weighed down by years
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mark Jarman reviews A Violence by Paula Bohince @princetonupress.bsky.social 1/2 [Bohince] admits, “I’ve held on to // childishness longer than most…” There is a difference between childhood and childishness, and A Violence reminds us of that repeatedly, as much like a lullaby as a prison sentence.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Marina Harss reviews August Bournonville’s Flower Festival in Genzano @nycballet.bsky.social: 1/5 What struck me most was the way the characters depicted by the two dancers treated each other: the tenderness, the delight in each other’s presence, the warmth.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
From “Bliss,” a short story by Louise Marburg: 1/2 The man keeps shooting and shooting until I think I’ll lose my mind. Then suddenly there’s silence, which is just as disturbing in its way. Don’t move, the toothpaste lady mouths. I nod and close my eyes.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Brooke Allen reviews Becoming Led Zeppelin: 1/4 Some critics have complained that the film skips over the band’s bad behavior…but I appreciated that decision. The movie is about music and only music; and it is music, of course, that makes this band, these men, interesting.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
From “Downpour,” by Jeanne Foster : 1/6 * You never thought “molested.” Then someone used the word. You were not “molested” in that time space, but in this time space you were “molested.” Touched by the pianist in the backseat of the car, your parents up front, father driving.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Tom Wilhelmus reviews House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones @riverheadbooks.bsky.social: 1/2 Instead of plot, it proceeds (like Flights) by labeled sections with titles like “Dreams,” “Mushroominess,” the names of characters, “Rhubarb”…
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Michael Thurston on Larry by Michael Haag: 1/5 Many books are luxuries, and it is probably unproductive to wonder whether any book is really necessary. Nevertheless, I finished this biography nagged by the question of why it had been published, especially when it is so obviously unfinished.
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