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Volume 55 Issue 2 | Fall 2025
Bodies In and Out of Control Guest Edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham “This themed issue of The Iowa Review grapples with the dynamic forces of bodies in and out of control.”…
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Volume 55, Issue 1 | Spring 2025
In this issue: the livelong sidelong, Nick Hoult, compression socks, a note from Pam, MAMILS (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra), a small cuss, Chichu Bijutsukan, two different kinds of reckonings, and…
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Volume 54, Issue 3 | Winter 2024–2025
In this issue: a stained glass window, the confluence of the celestial layer, three siblings’ escapade to a wealthy Mexican resort while being trailed by menacing rats, white poinsettias go…
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Volume 54, Issue 2 | Fall 2024
In this issue: a Panasonic Take ‘N’ Tape at summer camp, a bat, listening to experimental improv jazz, sketches of a dresser, not telling the Bosphorus your secrets, and more.…
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Volume 54, Issue 1 | Spring 2024
In this issue: goats: MRIs, honeysuckle, a car named Clem, Teddy bears, an obsession with surfing, the false promises of the Instant Pot, and more. POETRY Nathan Hoks | What I’ve…
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Volume 53, Issue 3 | Winter 2023/24
In this issue: the Night Witches, aging backward, cardiologists, Freddie Mercury, family secrets, FreakFest, coyotes, VHS tapes, and more. Table of Contents POETRY Janice N. Harrington | Broken Window Theory | The…
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Volume 53, Issue 2 | Fall 2023
In this issue: a broken oven, bad friends, EMTs, a sulking room, breast cancer, a Polaroid Automatic Land Camera, claw machines, and more. Table of Contents FICTION Hannah P. Thurman…
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Volume 53, Issue 1 | Spring 2023
In this issue: Walter Benjamin’s snow globes, a new stepmom, Superman comics, sibling rivalry, dreams about the pope, a ship on fire, ballerinas in New York City, Saint Valentine just before…
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Volumes 52, Issue 2/Volume 52, Issue 3 | Winter 2022/23
In this issue: a home for girls, the bardo, weddings, a mountain lion, pending Amazon orders, zero, hurricanes, Ree Drummond, Juan Felipe Herrera, and more. Table of Contents NONFICTION Steven Pfau |…
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Volumes 51, Issue 3/Volume 52, Issue 1 | Summer 2022
In this issue: bears, Trichoplax adhaerens, the National Visa Center, Los Angeles, Riga, Kathmandu, the Ohio State Buckeyes, journals from a mother, letters from Donald Justice, and more. Table of Contents FICTION Pallavi…
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Volume 51, Issue 2 | Spring 2022
In this issue: a portfolio on poetic Black resiliency, births, guanábana fruit, rodeo clowns, a bad back, winter ticks, a roadside inn, aphorisms, a storm, palindromes, and more. Table of Contents A PORTFOLIO…
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Back content of The Iowa Review, edited by faculty, students, and staff from the renowned writing and literature programs at the University of Iowa can be found here: Full Text…
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Volume 51, Issue 1 | Spring 2021
In this issue: a shrinking house, COVID, Burning Man, Alexander Pope, crisis, spies, a plane crash, wars, Sandy Koufax, and more. Table of Contents POETRY Stella Wong | Spooks (Dramatic Monologue…
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Volume 50, Issue 3 | Winter 2020/21
In this issue: Pat Benatar, hemochromatosis, funerals, hotel linens, running amok, prison food, a cult, freight, teen sexuality, the blues, and more. Table of Contents FICTION Venita Blackburn | Live Birth Maija Mäkinen |…
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Volume 50, Issue 1 | Spring 2020
In this issue: birthday cake, auctioneering school, the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert, a male masseuse in Kanagawa Prefecture, a love performance, the winner of the 2019 David Hamilton Prize…
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Volume 49, Issue 3 | Winter 2019/20
In this issue: toes, 362.28 in the card catalog, a portfolio of fantastical and surreal writing and artwork, a tenure review gone awry, and the winners of the 2019 Iowa…
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Volume 49, Issue 2 | Fall 2019
In this issue: jellyfish, a guide to surviving weddings, the U.S. border crisis, a bad grandma, Arthur Russell, sloths, improv, and mannequins. Fiction Anthony Varallo | Land of Flowers, Land of…
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Volume 49, Issue 1 — Spring 2019
In this issue: filk music, basketballs and tennis balls, trees with hands, the U.S./Mexico border, an ’80s Detroit dance party, and the winners of the 2018 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for…
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Volume 48, Issue 3 — Winter 2018/19
In this issue: cyanotypes, a giant hedge, nuns with tattoos, food carts, a divorcée in pumps, Naima Coltrane, an ode to the dumbphone, Charlottesville, and the winners of the 2018 Iowa…
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Volume 48, Issue 2 — Fall 2018
In this issue: spring training in Arizona, Black magick, pronouns and sentence diagrams, a shrinking man and a henchman, ramen, Krazy Kat, and an interview with Robyn Schiff. Fiction Emily Nemens | Prospects…
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Volume 48, Issue 1 — Spring 2018
In this issue: punctuation, LeBron James, post-Katrina paintings, an affair in Park Slope, motherhood, the son of Batman, a Leo like Jackie O, and the winner of the inaugural David…
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Volume 47, Issue 2 — Fall 2017
In this issue: reporting from war zones, orange spray paint gets ugly, alopecia, visualizing Walter Benjamin’s Arcades, breakfast and dinner in verse, Japan during the 2011 tsunami, a monkey magician,…