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Obituary

The Editors mourn the loss of Herbert Gold (1924–2023), one of our longest published writers. From 1951 to 2019, his work—short stories, literary criticism, book reviews, memoirs, letters from abroad—appeared in twenty-three...

Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest 2023

By David Mason | Uncategorized

The Hudson Review has a long tradition of including new writers in every issue, and the Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest arises from that tradition, honoring the journal’s cofounder and editor, who was himself a superb poet. He...

Roth/Updike

By Charles McGrath | Essay, Uncategorized

At the end of the last long conversation I had with Philip Roth, we wound up talking about John Updike. This wasn’t unusual. It also happened sometimes that Updike and I would find ourselves talking about Roth. John once...

Letter to the Editor

By Lyndall Gordon | Subscriber Only, Uncategorized

Dear Editor, I liked the way Mark Jarman drew on his father’s habits as pastor to light up “The Life and Work of George Herbert” in your Summer 2014 issue. It’s touching to read of a poet who, like Donne, underwent...

Unsettled Weather

By Bruce Whiteman | Subscriber Only, Uncategorized

There were times, reading Frederick Siedel’s new book, when, despite its slimness, I felt I had been sentenced to hard labor.⁠[1] The poems, with their relentless rhyme, their upper-class worldview and privileged setting...

Shrewd Old Abe

By Brooke Allen | Uncategorized

Abraham Lincoln seems to be the man of the hour. Barack Obama, who has consciously modeled himself on the sixteenth president and launched his campaign from Lincoln’s Springfield, celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of his...