SAR IV Features

(Volume IV, Fall 2020)

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.

Don't forget to wash your hands.

A Chris Manno cartoon on this year's election choices.

Alexandra S. Machuca is the cover artist for San Antonio Review's fourth print issue.

Photojournalism reveals the destruction still remaining after the 2020 Midwest Derecho savaged Cedar Rapids, Iowa and surrounding areas in early August.

“We're having a baby soon. / Despite being two men.”

"Cartoons are a hardcore visual way to unleash the emotions we all feel but can’t always express."

“I puked my prayers / sweated in tangled sheets”

“the rain dolls sway with beads of glint / in their matte eyes”

"Our mothers were jeweled / in nose pins and brass hoops"

The personal and the political in Tulsa.

“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!”

“tear with shrapnel hands / eyelashes from their skin graves”

“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.

Quotes to be included in the fourth print issue.

"I live atop a smoldering volcano, / always rumbling and threatening to erupt."

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.

Digitally enhanced photo by Carolyn Martin.

"i’m not deceivedby the brilliance of fall"

"does more than look"

(by Nai’a, a German Shepherd)

"Nai’a was she, 'dolphin' in Kamehameha’s tongue"

"Put all your goals in a box and burn that box."

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

"It is getting late in the world"

"Mist covers the ocean and beach."

“I've heard ghosts down inside the stereo”

"I have kept 4/4 time to the river’s current."

"For all gods listening or not"

"Welcome home, perfect strangers."

"coins pour from hell’s own slot machine into the lap of the world"

“We could re-design our garden with the waterscapes of the Japanese gardens.”

"Dali’s goddess of fecundity floats / On the rock of nudity like a pomegranate"

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

“You’re the last dark matter from another outgoing night”

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