Issue 6: Summer 2022

From the Editor

Poetry

“[White Noise],” “Sonnet,” “The Myth of Space Travel”

by Mag Gabbert

Fiction

“The Joneses”

by Stephen Graham Jones

Poetry

“Los Angeles, Summer 2020,” “Thank You”

by Sheila McMullin

Fiction

“The Ship on the Horizon”

by Ben Loory

Coming August

Poetry

“The Art of Bullfighting”

by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Poetry

“Palermo,” “In Praise of Pottery”

by M. Cottonwood

Fiction

“Only We Are Here”

by Clary Ahn

Responses

“The Thread”

by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

“Calistoga”

by Edan Lepucki

Essays/Nonfiction

“You’re Breaking My Heart”

by Chrys Tobey

Coming September

Diary

Clay Diary

by Abigail Thomas

Poetry

“Hyperbolic Geometry,” “Lavender Eucalyptus Boyfriend,” “Jean Seberg,” “Marion Cotillard”

by Eileen G’Sell

Essays/Nonfiction

“Walking in Zigzag”

by Diane Mehta

Portfolio

Introduction to the Southern California Review Archives

by The Editors

Fiction

“After David”

by Catherine Texier

Essays/Nonfiction

“Macrodosed”

by Roberto Lovato

Coming October

Conversations

A Conversation with Nicole Rudick

by Sam Stephenson

Poetry

“English as a Second Languish”

by John Olivares Espinoza

Eye of the Beholder

“How Can I Make Then Hear Me?”

by Cooper Gillespie

Poetry

“(N)evermore,” “We Learn the Names of Things,” “Brief As We Are”

by Gregory Mahrer

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