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A Magazine of Literature and the Arts

“The Hudson Review has remained an arbiter of good taste during decades when the idea of taste itself has been challenged as unimportant or politically incorrect.”

— The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Summer 2021 (Volume LXXIV, No. 2)

Essays

The Jab: A True Story of Inoculation and Vaccine Bart Casey

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The Audacities of Molière’s Don Juan Victor Brombert

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Returning to Roethke Mark Jarman

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“A tomb for thee, my babe!” Bad Poems for the Death of Children Perri Klass

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Fiction

Billyknuckles Mark Jacobs

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You Have Reached Your Destination Louise Marburg

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Poetry

Daylight Edmund Keeley

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Behind the Numbers Philip Kitcher

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New Translations from Homer, The Odyssey Daniel Mendelsohn

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Crossing the Line; Western Light; Biographia Literaria David Mason

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Epiphany, 1937 George Seferis

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Hüzün; Mercato del Pesce, Catania; Lam’s Cosmology; Off-Off-Variation on Théophile Gautier’s “Promenade Nocturne” Orlando Ricardo Menes

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Winterberry Sydney Lea

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The Zimmer Infusion Room Peter Makuck

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By Sea Cally Conan-Davies

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Beauty and Fear Michael Lavers

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Woman Holding a Balance William Virgil Davis

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From the Esplanade; The Futurist E. M. Schorb

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Arts Chronicles

Late Pandemic Theater from the U.K. Erick Neher

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At the Galleries Karen Wilkin

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Book Reviews

Portals Between Worlds: Recent Sci-Fi and Fantasy and Vintage Octavia Butler Susan Balée

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Wonder Tales and More Alia Ahmed

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The Priorities of Robert Frost David Mason

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The Earth Moves If You Get It Right Bruce Whiteman

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Ricks’s Heroic Lines William H. Pritchard

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Comment

Letter from the Road Brooke Allen

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