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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, 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.

On a personal, psychological level, "unfinished business" often refers to disturbing events or feelings that have not been fully examined. On a corporate or organizational level, "unfinished business" can refer to obligations and expectations left unfulfilled.In Jim Wayne's novel The Unfinished Man, the scholarly and unsociable Father Justin Zapp needs to examine the psychic wounds incurred in his youth when a priest sexually exploited him. Though Father Zapp has positioned himself within the church in a situation that allows him brilliantly to pursue scholarly work, his capacity for human interaction is severely limited. When news comes to Father Zapp of current sexual abuse within his diocese, he is challenged to become a strong shepherd protecting his innocent flock from predation.Can his faith survive the finding that the Catholic Church itself, the largest organization in the world, has commonly covered up sexual abuse by priests instead of working to eliminate it? Can one man make a difference?Can one priest find the courage to return to ground zero in his own psyche, acknowledge the wreckage, and slowly rebuild a new self with enough courage and stamina to combat sexual abuse by priests?Set in the 1950s and '60s, the landscape of The Unfinished Man ranges from rural Indiana to the Vatican. Other reform issues within the Church, such as the Church's position vis-a-vis Jews, also come to the fore. Can a larger, more just, and humane spirituality emerge through new leadership?While Jim Wayne's novel unflinchingly presents the existence of evil, it succeeds equally in creating the presence of strength and goodness. This gripping novel also raises questions for any reader about his or her own private or public unfinished self.