Spring 2017 (Volume LXX, No. 1)

Essays

Fiction

Poetry

  • A Compensation of Sorts; How Poems Arrive; Dover Beach Reconsidered   Anne Stevenson   
  • Sleeping Beauty at the Sleep Lab; On First Looking into Bishop's Binoculars   Debora Greger   

Chronicles

  • Signifiers on Parade: La La Land and the Movie Musical   Erick Neher   

Reviews

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News

Literary Awakenings at The New York Society Library

  On Thursday, May 11, 2017, The New York Society Library hosted a panel featuring authors Susan Balée, Andrew Motion, William H. Pritchard and Igor Webb, in celebration of the publication of Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review, edited by Ronald Koury, the magazine’s Managing Editor since 1985.     William H. Pritchard, […]

Editor Ron Koury Interviewed in The Weekly Standard

TWS: What is a uniquely Hudson Review-style essay and how does it differ from, say, a New York Times Book Review essay?
Koury: I would say that range of subject matter is one of the defining characteristics of our essays.

Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review

  Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review, edited by managing editor Ronald Koury, has just been published by Syracuse University Press and is now available for purchase. About the book: During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and […]

Asako Serizawa’s Train to Harbin Wins O. Henry Prize

We are happy to announce that Asako Serizawa’s short story “Train to Harbin,” published in our Autumn 2014 issue, has been selected as an O. Henry award winner. The story will be featured in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016, edited by Laura Furman. The anthology will be published by Anchor this September. We extend […]