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The Louisville Review, Number 93, Summer 2023Editor Sena Jeter NaslundAssociate Editor Flora K. SchildknechtManaging Editor Amy Foos KapoorGuest Poetry Editors Greg Pape, Tammy RamseyGuest Fiction Editor Juyanne JamesCornerstone Editor Betsy WoodsTechnical Director Ron SchildknechtFinancial Director John MorganTLR publishes two volumes each year. Visit our website for complete guidelines, back issues, subscriptions, and more: www.louisvillereview.org.Like us on Facebook for up to date information about each issue, news on contributors, etc.: www.facebook.com/TheLouisvilleReview. Follow us on Twitter @TheLouRev.Questions? Please note our email and mailing addresses:managingeditor@louisvillereview.orgThe Louisville Review Corp.1436 St. James Court #1Louisville, Kentucky 40208This issue: $10 ppdample copy: $5 ppdSubscriptions: One year, $18; two years, $36; three years, $54 plus $2 shippingSubscribers outside the United States please add $35/year for shipping.Text and cover printed in the United States.Cover and interior design by Jonathan Weinert.Cover artwork: Alfred Conteh, Aaron, 2018. Acrylic, atomized steel dust, and soil on canvas. Courtesy of the Collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, 21c Museum Hotels. Photographed by Ron Schildknecht.The Louisville Review is a not-for-profit publication.The Louisville Review Corporation is a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.© 2023 by The Louisville Review Corporation. All rights revert to the authors.

The Louisville ReviewNumber 92Editor Sena Jeter Naslund Associate Editor Flora K. SchildknechtManaging Editor Amy Foos KapoorGuest Poetry Editors Debra Kang Dean, Wanda FriesGuest Fiction Editor Dr¿ma Drudge Cornerstone Editor Betsy WoodsTechnical Director Ron SchildknechtFinancial Director John Morgan Poetry by: Frederick Smock, Tony O'Keeffe, Congxia Ma, Daisy Bassen, Kristin Camitta Zimet, Karen McAferty Morris, Elya Braden, Juan Pablo Mobili, Angie Macri, Joe Schmidt, Josh Mahler, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Michelle Glans, Michelle Bonczek Evory, Michael J. Galko, Mary Buchinger, Rebecca Thrush, Mark Smith-Soto, Ciara Shuttleworth, John Repp, John A. Nieves, Jeff Hardin, Renee Gilmore, Matt Dennison, Lana Spendl, Gaylord Brewer, Diane Scholl, Marianne Kunkel, Melissa Madenski, Jeremy Paden, Rosanne Osborne, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Marcia L. Hurlow, Chelsie Taylor, Joseph Anthony, Luke Wallin, V. Joshua Adams, Denise Duhamel, Pat Owen, Donald Illich, James B. Nicola, Hollie Dugas, Millard Dunn Nonfiction by: Chris Reitz, Dianne Aprile Fiction by: Patricia Foster, Jody Lisberger, Mrinal Rajaram, Lynn Gordon, Elizabeth Schoettle, Catherine Uroff, Sarah Martin, David Wilde, Bob Chikos Cornerstone (K-12 Poetry) by: Kate Rowberry, Faye Zhang, Emma Catherine Hoff, Jiayi Shao, Yunzhong Mao, Helena Wu, Mary Virginia Vietor, Cloris Shi

The Louisville Review #88 features the following contributors in poetry, fiction, and K-12 poetry in our Cornerstone section: Peter Grandbois, Simon Perchik, Laurie Welch, Tom Hunley, Simon Perchik, Katerina Stoykova, Marci Rae Johnson, Maxima Kahn, Amy L. Fair, David Romanda, Anna Idelevich, John A. Nieves, Jason Tandon, Angie Macri, Laine Derr, Margarita Cruz, Taylor Zhang, Tyler King, Greg Pape, Milica Mijatovic, Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena, Jonathan Weinert, Stan Lee Werlin, J. A. Bernstein, Jessica Evans, Leslie Daniels, Donna Gay Anderson, Jim Bellar, Lori Ann Stephens, Grant Deam, Jen McConnell, Robert Boucheron, Mary Popham, Kieran Chung, Sofia Dzodan, Hannah Slayton

New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the lives of successful creative women—their devotion to work and family; their fears; their loves—in an enthralling novel that resonates across time and placeIt's midnight on St. James Court, in which stands a fountain sculpture of Venus rising from the sea. Kathryn Callaghan has just finished a draft of her novel about renowned painter Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, a survivor of the French Revolution. Kathryn remains haunted by Élisabeth's experiences—revealed here in a novel-within-a-novel, interleaved with the chronicle of one day in Kathryn's life. Despite being separated by time, place, and culture, Kathryn and Élisabeth possess similar gifts and burdens. And before another midnight arrives, Kathryn will confront personal danger as frightening as that which Élisabeth faced during the Reign of Terror. Each woman will be called upon and tested; each will, like Venus, rise triumphantly above the expectations of her world.

By decoding light from space, Lucy Bergmann’s astrophysicist husband discovers the existence of extraterrestrial life; their friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, unearths from the sands of Egypt an ancient alternative version of the Book of Genesis. To religious fanatics, these discoveries have the power to rock the foundations of their faith. Entrusted to deliver this revolutionary news to both the scientific and religious communities, Lucy becomes the target of Perpetuity, a secret society. When her small plane crashes, Lucy finds herself in a place called Eden with an American soldier named Adam, whose quest for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has driven him to madness. Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam & Eve is a thriller, a romance, an adventure, an idyll—a tour de force from Sena Jeter Naslund, one of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time.

The Louisville Review, Number 91, Spring 2022Poetry Contributors: Mary Ann Samyn, Adrian Blevins, Adam Tavel, Kyle D. Craig, Diamond Forde, Ann Pedone, Rachel Whalen, Kevin McLellan, Christopher Howell, Roy Bentley, Gabriel Welsch, Clay Cantrell, James Hejna, Rolly Kent, Alamgir Hashmi, Jack Ridl, Don Bogen, Michael Mark Fiction Contributors:Jane Ogburn Dorfman, Dennis Hurley, Patricia Dutt, Rebecca Bernard, Edward Jackson, John Sims Jeter, S. A. Griffin, Marguerite Alley Cornerstone Contributors (work by writers K-12):Saanvi Mundra, Kay Lee, Jiayi Shao, Haile Espin, Henry Phoel, Bravery Grace Boes, Alexander Miller, Matteo Tremaine Pavlenko, Emma Catherine Hoff Editor: Sena Jeter Naslund Associate Editor: Flora K. SchildknechtManaging Editor: Amy Foos KapoorGuest Poetry Editor: Jonathan WeinertGuest Fiction Editor: Beth Ann Bauman Cornerstone Editor: Betsy WoodsTechnical Adviser: Ron SchildknechtFinancial Director: John Morgan TLR publishes two volumes each year: spring and fall. Visit our website for complete guidelines, back issues, subscriptions, and more: www.louisvillereview.org. Like us on Facebook for up to date information about each issue, news on contributors, etc.: www.facebook.com/TheLouisvilleReview. Follow us on Twitter @TheLouRev. Questions? Our please note our email and mailing addresses:managingeditor@louisvillereview.org. The Louisville Review Corp.1436 St. James Court #1Louisville, Kentucky 40208This issue: $10 ppdSample copy: $5 ppdSubscriptions: One year, $18; two years, $36; three years, $54 plus $2 shipping.Foreign subscribers, please add $35/year for shipping.The text and the cover printed in the United States. Cover design by Jonathan Weinert. Cover artwork, Table For . . . , by Joyce Gardner.The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides American Rescue Plan funds to The Louisville Review Corporation with federal funding from the National Endowment of the Arts. The Louisville Review is a not-for-profit publication.The Louisville Review Corporation is a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.© 2022 by The Louisville Review Corporation. All rights revert to authors.

What happened to Eden?The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam & EveHer books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People); "enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and "original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the poignant complexity of humanity—the passion and despair, the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam & Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale to date.Hours before his untimely—and highly suspicious—death, world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn of—or accept—proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the keys to his secret work.Devastated by Thom's death, Lucy keeps the secret, but Thom's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it. Midway through the daring journey, Lucy's small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy's wounds, and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization, where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries.Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and creationists, Adam & Eve expands the definition of a "sacred book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance. A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam & Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.

Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas, she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate their marriage and in so doing is unable to give her a child and an heir to the throne. Deeply disappointed and isolated in her own intimate circle, and apart from the social life of the court, she allows herself to remain ignorant of the country's growing economic and political crises, even as poor harvests, bitter winters, war debts, and poverty precipitate rebellion and revenge. The young queen, once beloved by the common folk, becomes a target of scorn, cruelty, and hatred as she, the court's nobles, and the rest of the royal family are caught up in the nightmarish violence of a murderous time called ?the Terror.?Sena Jeter Naslund offers a dramatic reimagining of this truly compelling woman that goes far beyond the popular myth.

Weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sena Jeter Naslund creates a tapestry of American social transformation at once intimate and epic.In Birmingham, Alabama, twenty-year-old Stella Silver, an idealistic white college student, is sent reeling off her measured path by events of 1963. Combining political activism with single parenting and night-school teaching, African American Christine Taylor discovers she must heal her own bruised heart to actualize meaningful social change. Inspired by the courage and commitment of the civil rights movement, the child Edmund Powers embodies hope for future change. In this novel of maturation and growth, Naslund makes vital the intersection of spiritual, political, and moral forces that have redefined America.

Evoking passion and heartbreak., intelligence and unapologetic humanity, these eight beautifully crafted stories explore the boundary conditions between the self and others. Although social realities -- racial and ethnic tensions, sexual harassment, and abuse -- make up their background, these are really love stories in which people discover and forgive one another. A daughter finds her father's kindness extends beyond her and their family; a wife discovers and forgives the affair between her husband and best friend; and, in the title story which takes the form of a letter to an almost-lover, the narrator winds through swirling eddies of memory and language to relate her present and past lives and the loves that have informed them.Written with a masterful sureness of hand and heart, these captivating, intimate stories display Sena Jeter Naslund's extraordinary presence as one of today's most rewarding writers of fiction.

A collection of love stories in the broadest sense, exploring the boundaries between self and others, the half-light of betrayal, the darkness of ethnic and racial tensions and the love between parents and child.

How did Sherlock Homes come into possession of a true Stardivarius? Who was the one true love of the great detective's life? And what shattering disappointment left the detective with feelings of overwhelming melancholy? As Holme's great friend, Dr. Watson, sets out to answer these questions and recount the thrilling "lost" adventure of Holmes's attempt to rescue the love of his life from a mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, his own life is threatened by a figure in a familiar Inverness coat and deerstalker cap. In this extraordinary novel, Sena Jeter Naslund, author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Ahab's Wife, brilliantly reweaves the colorfully cryptic, fog-enshrouded world of Sherlock in Love is at once a rewarding entertainment and a remarkable homage to the greatest sleuth in literature.