Prose from San Antonio Review

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

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

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

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

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

Announcing our move to PubPub.

Under construction.

Peter Berard reviews Margaret Hagerman's book White Kids.

"You are the opposite of a stalker."

It takes a fat wallet — and a community of readers and writers

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

Announcing Issue Two.

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

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

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

John Bonanni reflects on his children.

Kimberly Tolson confronts racism in the family.

Battle of credit scores.

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

"Am I not who you thought I would be?”

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

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

An essay in two parts.

"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.

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"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."

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

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

"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."

Who is oppressing you, white man?

And that's a good thing.

Ryan Boddy talks process.

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

"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."

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

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

Kimberly Tolson confronts racism in the family.

"I am building a presence of my fatherhood."

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

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