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The latest issue of the Kenyon Review is out, offering an extraordinary range of voices. Fiction by Mahreen Sohail, Anjanette Delgado, and Charles Johnson; nonfiction by Kimiko Hahn and Rodger Kamenetz; and poetry by Victoria Chang, Arthur Sze, Joanna Klink, Cintia Santana, Peter Everwine, and more. Plus, two book reviews.

The MacGuffin’s Spring 2018 issue features new poetry by Poet Hunt 23 guest judge, Alberto Álvaro Ríos. Sonja Johanson submits an ode to her favorite amphibians Jim Daniels remembers an important moment in DiPalma’s “Blow Out.” This issue’s prose selections include Brenna Lemieux’s “Following Suit,” a novel family drama with a bit of a twist ending, and Steven Hundley’s “Elsohn,” a masterful narrative about dealing with the cards that are given to—or forced upon—you. Two pieces of creative nonfiction this time: Tamara Adleman’s “Life Is Short, But Art Is Long” and Barbara Rebbeck’s chilling “The Russians are coming . . . .”

This month’s Featured Selection includes an interview with and work by Angela Ball. Sarah Huener reviews Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith. Mark Scroggins pens “Why Swinburne? (An Open Letter)” in the Essays and Comment section. Featured poetry selections this month include work by Tara Skurtu, William Trowbridge, Wayne Miller, Max Temmerman, Bob Hicok, Andrei Codrescu, Kathy Fagan, and more.