Massachusetts Review

Our summer issue has arrived! Featuring work by @SumanaSiliguri and @katzwords , poets janan alexandra and Marianne Boruch, plus translations of Kim Hyesoon and José Luís Peixoto, plus art by Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, be sure to get a copy today! massreview.org/issue/volume-6…

We need to keep talking about critical counterinsurgency, the genocide in Palestine and the coloniality of the Caribbean. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 to @sablikatriumph instigator, to @blkagendareport to @MassReview & @IMIXWHATILIKE for keeping the conversations open 👇🏾1/

"The future of a nation rests on the shoulders of our generation. But in Gaza, Tawjihi has become a test of survival." Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi(@TAQWA19AHMED) shares a dispatch on the current state of education in Gaza #JusticeforPalestine: massreview.org/2025/07/18/taw…

"Students in Gaza understand that education is more than a right—it is resistance. While bombs tear apart our buildings, they cannot destroy our will. In a world that offers us nothing but destruction, we still choose to learn. We are survivors. We are dreamers. We are fighters."

All solidarity with @TAQWA19AHMED and the students of Palestine resisting scholasticide and genocide 💜 “Our classrooms are empty, but our minds remain alive.  Students in Gaza understand that education is more than a right—it’s a form of resistance.”

"Students in Gaza understand that education is more than a right—it is resistance. While bombs tear apart our buildings, they cannot destroy our will. In a world that offers us nothing but destruction, we still choose to learn. We are survivors. We are dreamers. We are fighters."

Deeply honoured to be featured in @MassReview’s #10Questions series alongside the gifted @AmandaSarasien, with whom I had the great pleasure of translating a stunning story by José Luís Peixoto. Our collaboration and reflections are now live: 🔗 massreview.org/2025/07/14/10

“...Because I have an exciting and productive working relationship with Amanda Sarasien—an extraordinary literary stylist in her own right—I invited her to collaborate with me.” @elton_uliana & @AmandaSarasien writes for our #10Questions, on our website: massreview.org/2025/07/14/10-…

"Finally, the Dalai Lama entered the hall, one shoulder bared beneath his red robe. With little fanfare, he took his spot behind a table and stood to address his audience." Read an excerpt from @amyyeewrites's FAR FROM THE ROOFTOP OF THE WORLD: massreview.org/2025/07/11/we-…

"Unfit Parent takes readers through the more individual experience of bringing an infant home, and caring for a needy baby while inhabiting a needy body." MR manager Emily Wojcik looks at Jessica Slice's latest book, UNFIT PARENT: massreview.org/2025/07/08/rev…

“I am my own first reader because I’ve learned over time that I am my own best critic.” Janis Bultman writes for our #10Questions, available on our website: massreview.org/2025/07/02/10-…

Celebrating July with some summer reads from our past contributors that came out in the last three months! Including @ElisePaschen, Dan Leach, Jennie Malboeuf, and more. #Reading #summer massreview.org/2025/07/01/apr…

"I used to look at the sky, the clouds, the stars, just to avoid looking down, where the ground was soaked in blood and destruction." #Palestinian writer Nadera Raied Mushtha reflects on the destruction of Gaza, her home, for MR #JusticeforPalestine: massreview.org/2025/06/27/my-…

An excerpt from LIKE THE NIGHT INSIDE THE EYES, by my belovedest @daniel_lipara, in the latest issue of the @MassReview. Thanks so much to Mona Kareem, editor extraordinaire.

Loved reading this interview of @SumanaSiliguri . Genteel and insightful and full of the wonder of a wide open soul. ❣️

THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW asked me 10 questions massreview.org/2025/06/24/10-… @MassReview

“From the foothills I would see or have a sense of some of the highest mountain peaks in the world—tourists came for these places, not places like ours, unremarkable in their imagination.” @SumanaSiliguri writes for our #10Questions, now on our website: massreview.org/2025/06/24/10-…

"So often we describe the academic in opposition to labor, but Nelson’s collection is candid about university structures." @AsaLDrake looks at Jennifer Nelson's ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/06/24/ref…

"Some of us were born into fire. Others into silence. But for us in Gaza—our first breath came with the taste of fear. The world met us with its back turned." massreview.org/2025/06/20/why…

Why Must We Be Heroes? massreview.org/2025/06/20/why… via @MassReview #Gaza