Prose from San Antonio Review

A Meditation on a Translation Work-in-Progress

"Can I survive the very light I created"

Can the long tradition of war prognostication in novel form be called honorable?

“I begin as a twitch in my father’s groin.“

The many times Texas' leadership has failed us.

Peter Berard Revisits the Seventies

"I like games and fun and play and I like talking about how easy poetry is, how everyone is a poet, how the alphabet is a playground and we are the players."

(The book, not the movie)

Peter Berard reads right-wing shit so you don't have to.

“He’ll explain to her the historical necessity of his act, its ultimate logic.”

"Craftsmen lay out their hand-made dolls wearing ancient emperors’ robes and hats."

"side to side like strangers"

I warned about this.

John Willingham looks at what's lost in the translation to film.

Berard on Lovecraft, Lehane and the Puritan Legacy

On the necessity of putting away rhetoric and rivalry.

Peter Berard reviews The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown.

How much color can a thriller hold before it ceases to be a thriller?

“It was a tremendous world then, everything larger and more vivid, each event new and full of possibility.”

“She’d spent the first night on her own in a West Hollywood motel that cost a hundred bucks for a room with a stained bedspread and stale pot reek, then decided to move into the station.”

SAR Book Review Editor Peter Berard finally reads Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.

“Is now the time to speak up?”

Post-war academia and counterculture fight queer liberation.

The personal and the political in Tulsa.

“Jesus, Carrie. You look like summer.”

“And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it!”

“He could surf her repeatedly on those recorded meetings. Her electronic self was on demand.”

“Of their first meeting, little has come down to us and yet less is known for certain.”

“This place, this glorified shed on an industrial estate in the arse-end of Warrington, it was everything to me.”

Andy Boyd reviews Marilynne Robinson's latest novel, Jack.

“Emily LeGrange was experiencing one of those moments where she had to admit she was doing pretty good.”

Margaret A. Hagerman, sociologist and author of "White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America," says parents need to do more than talk to their kids to counter racism.

“Want to cut them off?”

"So we go to this gallery—me, Marie, the kids—and it’s not only what I expect, it’s worse."

"She was convinced that her cruz, the cross she carried every day ambushing her chances at happiness, was the result of sorcery."

"I am building a presence of my fatherhood."

The future of our Postal Service is all of our futures

"My folks sent me away to live with my Aunt Charlene and Uncle Bud in eastern Colorado the summer of 1969, praying I’d come back a reformed boy."

Christine Sloan Stoddard shares her art and work with adults with disabilities.

The past — and future — of the Social Democrats

"You eat steak, you want sex; you want sex, you want sex.”

Kimberly Tolson confronts racism in the family.

“Fifteen seconds later, Ray crashed into the oak tree in our front yard.”

“Pain does not forget me, nor do I forget it, my constant companion, my best friend”

"A mule can only do what a mule can do. And that’s enough.”

William O. Pate II reviews Alex Z. Salinas' debut book of poetry, WARBLES.

"I must wander this earth without a core."

An essay in two parts.

“With your mind free from earthly shackles, it will be free to wander.”

Dr. Russell Arben Fox’s follow-up essay on Charles Marohn’s Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity.

"Sometimes, I wonder why I ever talk at all."

"A redhead when she was young, Winifred must have equated herself with the fox, the terrified object of the hunt desperately trying to escape the hunters."

“What did we have here, a circus was it really coming to town?”

"You are the opposite of a stalker."

"We are Napoleonic Code here in Jefferson Parish. We don’t trouble our neighbor and our neighbor don’t trouble us. Except when they do."

“Like horses and cattle, we sleep standing up. If they lay us down, see, we begin to sag and warp.”

An examination of post-#MeToo balances of power.

"I gotta tell you somethin’ important."

"I’m too damned old for this kind of stimulation. Get me to a nunnery."

"Yes, roses are red, violets are blue…but I’d rather cultivate pennies and watch big bucks accrue."

Bekah McNeel reviews Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education.

Kris Gage looks at What Love Is: And What It Could Be.

And that's a good thing.

Who is oppressing you, white man?

Ryan Boddy talks process.

Battle of credit scores.

Legalizing cannabis production in the U.S. South could revitalize state economies.

Peter Berard reviews Margaret Hagerman's book White Kids.

William O. Pate II reviews Alex Z. Salinas' debut book of poetry, WARBLES.

Russell Arben Fox reviews Charles Marohn's Strong Towns for San Antonio Review.

The author of A Dangerous Energy expands upon his outlook, methods and future works.

"A mule can only do what a mule can do. And that’s enough."

John Bonanni reflects on his children.

Reflections on the untimely passing of the Silver Jews' frontman.

"It’s hard to be a city at night, sleeping along this big river. So much wakes you from slumber ... "

Alex Z. Salinas reviews Charlie Brice's recent book of poetry.

Kimberly Tolson confronts racism in the family.

The American counterculture's desire to live irresponsibly is reflected in Ishmael Reed's work.

A review of Eve Tracy Coker's A Worker's Worth.

Or, How Neoliberal Higher Education Funding Drove My Family into Bankruptcy

‘You ain’t gonna feel a thing.’

"Brian May’s journey is worth considering because he reminds us of how often we sell ourselves short."

“They passed a law over a decade ago in our state permitting us to marry, but we never did.”