Massachusetts Review

Our spring issues is finally here! Featuring work from @stellayywong and Tyler Patton, @row_ie_argument and Hassan Herzallah, plus translations of prose and poetry, with art from Jennifer Strings, find inside the much needed voices for late-winter days: massreview.org/issue/volume-6…

"From this present, THE OFFICIAL HISTORY continues to offer a meditation on the ways in which authoritarianism settles into daily life before it’s named and confronted." Manuela Borzone on watching LA HISTORIA OFICIAL now, 40 years after its release: @themassachusettsreview/note/p-191477143?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=16yfj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@themassachuse…

"Write about the thing you’re ashamed of; the thing you’re afraid to say aloud. That’s where you’ll find your liberation." JODI M. SAVAGE in our latest interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassach…

"Il y a des moments où il faut hausser le ton et dénoncer haut et fort la guerre, le militarisme et l’impérialisme. Ce moment est venu." - BOMBARDER L’IRAN POUR UN GRAND ISRAËL par Michel Moushabeck pour @MassReview paju.org/fr/bombarder-l…

My latest for the @MassReview. Storytelling is important now and always.

"In this moment of growing global authoritarianism, building international networks of solidarity is key." Dany Díaz Mejía's LESSONS FROM HONDURAS: open.substack.com/pub/themassach…

Grateful for this incisive review of Desert Imaginations!

"What is unfolding across West Asia is a colonial project that, if allowed to continue, will ultimately pave the way for a Greater Israel and end any prospects for Palestinian freedom." Michel Moushabeck for @MassReview massreview.org/2026/03/11/bom… #Iran

"I get so tired of living up to some imagined expectation of what makes sense for me to write. I just want to write. I’m getting there." Eric Boyd's interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassach…

"The Iran war is enabled by the military, financial, and diplomatic support of Western governments for the apartheid state of Israel and its right-wing extremist government." MICHEL MOUSHABECK for our Public Affairs: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/bombing-iran…

Check out our Executive Editor Britt Rusert on @WHMP's Talk The Talk, talking about our current issue featuring writers and families on incarceration: soundcloud.com/whmp/mass-revi…

"El Guabli insists that Saharanism is an ideological deafness, a learned incapacity to hear or register the voices, stories, and intricate relationships that make up desert life, so that only fantasies of absence, danger, or utility are recognized" open.substack.com/pub/themassach…

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 AWP Small Press Publisher Award: @adroitjournal and @MassReview

"I love the feeling of knowing that communication has been achieved, the transfer of an idea from one mind to another." Carl "Taqwaa" Moore in our newest interview: open.substack.com/pub/themassach…

"Having read SCREAM WITH ME first, I more than once mentally thanked Lisowski in UNCANNY VALLEY GIRLS for the respect she affords [horror films] merely by refraining from jamming the square peg of horror into liberal feminism’s round hole." Sophie Lewis: @themassachusettsreview/note/p-189771697?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=16yfj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@themassachuse…

Thank you to @MassReview for the space to write about the "connection between the racial capitalist material extraction of the Caribbean by the Global North, and the extraction of Caribbean thought by white Westerners and Global North scholars". New Link massreview.org/2024/08/09/res…

"In Gaza, when a professor is martyred, it is not just a person we lose, but decades of research, wisdom, and hope. Now we have become the guardians of their dreams and the voices that must carry their legacy to the world." - Alaa Dmeida for @MassReview massreview.org/2026/02/27/mar…

Good day to read @willathewisp's damning indictment in the @MassReview of the Democratic Party's suppression of anti-genocide voices at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. massreview.org/2024/09/06/tes…

"If I am insistent and lucky, I might stumble upon something surprising but that which seems to be already waiting in the language of arrival." @PoetDongLi on translation and uncovering, plus his admiration of en plein air painting, for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2026/02/24/10-…

"I loved writing. It has always felt like something no one could take away from me." Sheree L. Greer's interview, and a short reading: open.substack.com/pub/themassach…