by Jackson Saul | May 27, 2020 | Archive, Feature, Fiction Print
The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
by Jackson Saul | May 25, 2020 | Feature
” ‘What it Took’ is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often...
by Jackson Saul | May 19, 2020 | Interviews
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Poetry Editor, Kelsey Nuttall We get a new staff every year here at BWR. We (the editors) interviewed each other so that you (the world) could get a sense of who we are as readers. Interview by CHELSEA HANNA COHEN Chelsea Hanna...
by Jackson Saul | May 14, 2020 | Archive, Feature, Nonfiction Print
The Empty by Panpan Song from BWR 46.1 I. Prayer for the Feeding of the Hungry Ghosts In the fall of 2013, I had recently moved to New York, when I ran into an acquaintance from some years ago in Shanghai. He was working for an investment bank in Midtown and said, if...
by Jackson Saul | May 5, 2020 | Archive, Feature, Fiction Print
Socratic Wig by Sara Kachelman from BWR 46.2 A reading by the author https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Socratic-Recording.m4a I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true...
