Prose editor's introductory note to San Antonio Review (Volume V | Summer 2021)

Poetry editor's introductory note to SAR V (Summer 2021)

The many times Texas' leadership has failed us.

A new opportunity for inclusion in our next print issue.

"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."

Timeline of Irresponsibility: A Narrative — On Having No Idea What You're Doing — A Call for Texas Critical Theory

"pyrrhic freedoms fade softly / into heat of noon sweat"

"Can I survive the very light I created"

"fever-dream / of the Un-united States"

“On an arc of bending bladed metal, bowed”

“yet navigating by the heart / is a tricky business”

“She taught a lesson no one wants to learn.”

"A material so imbued with history / cannot be a blank slate."

“newton said that energy is neither / created nor destroyed”

“Jesus, Carrie. You look like summer.”

“Hell, most people would have you believe the county is chock-full from end to end with nothing but kind, Christian folk.”

“It’s another losing year, another year of coming out on the very bottom.”

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

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

Murder, Mayhem, Mantel and More…

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

The Last Man Takes LSD, Ministry for the Future, Margaret Randall, Edward Said and On the Nature of Ecological Paradox recommended.

A review of Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Microfiction ranging over the variety of human relationships.

“I’ve never been to San Francisco.”

San Antonio artist Milicent Fambrough sends art by mail.

Milicent Fambrough cuts up.

The long history of the end of slavery.

Books, music, films, television and other suggestions from the SAR Editorial Collective.

Quotes from our reading since the last print issue.

Free music to accompany San Antonio Review's fifth print issue.