Athenaeum Review

07/21/2026

Coming soon!

A special issue of Athenaeum Review on “Crisis and Rupture,” guest edited by Nils Roemer.

Including:

“Desirable Futures—New Histories” — Nils Roemer

“Video Games and the Cheerful Apocalypse” — Monica Evans

“Slow Catastrophe: Eileen Chang’s “Blossoms Afloat, Flowers Adrift” and the Archive” — Mai Wang

“Notes on ALHAMBRA” — Fred Curchack

“Hearing the Howl Beneath the Hardscape: Sinkholes, Hell Portals, and Earth-mouths” — Katie Fisher

“Crossing Borders, Resisting Rupture: Storytelling in Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand” — Shivika Mathur

“The Concentric Circles of Memory: Global Approaches to the Holocaust” — Mehak Burza

Front cover artwork: Francesca Brunetti, Untitled, from The Mushrooms of Plato’s Cave, 2023. Watercolor and digital drawing.

Find out more at athenaeumreview.org

06/19/2026

New on the podcast: Tyler Cowen!

In this clip: David Hockney, underrated master (really).

01/27/2026

Today on our website:

"Images Against Oblivion:
Remembering the Holocaust Through Art and Photographs"

by Mehak Burza

https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/images-against-oblivion/

Image: Mark L. Cohen, Next Stop, Auschwitz, from A Legacy of Remembrance. Courtesy: Mark L. Cohen (of blessed memory)

10/14/2025

Coming soon: Our new special issue on generative AI in the arts and humanities, guest edited by Nils Roemer, with contributions from Andrew F. Scott, Katherine Davies, Charissa Terranova, Katrina Rushing, and Heidi Rae Cooley!

Also featuring:
- Barry Schwabsky on Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
- Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Ovid’s The Art of Living
- Ed Simon on Holinshed and Hakluyt’s hidden epics
- Daniel Asia on three books about life and death
- Jonathan Hartmann on two versions of dystopia
- David Carrier on Venice
- Brian Allen on Murillo’s Jacob at the Meadows Museum.

Front Cover: Detail of Rebecca Jinxiu Han, Reflective Thinking on Digital Self-Expression, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

10/14/2025

Moses Pendleton, choreographer and founder of MOMIX, will receive the $150,000 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts at UT Dallas, presenting a lecture, dance performance and photography exhibit on November 2nd, 3rd and 4th!

brettell-award.utdallas.edu/moses-pendleton/

09/23/2025

In memoriam: Frederick Turner 1943-2025

𝐴𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑒𝑢𝑚 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 mourns the passing of Frederick Turner (1943-2025), a great and generous supporter of the journal since its beginning.

09/23/2025

Arthur Sze has been named the 25th poet laureate of the United States.

In a preview of the fall issue of 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, Barry Schwabsky reflects on Sze's work:

"Sze wants to encompass as much as Whitman—perhaps more, since he lives in a time when 'America' would be a limiting term and not an expansive one, and therefore he ignores national boundaries whether geographic or ideological—but he does so without conjuring an image of the poet who ties it all together."

https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/simultaneous-sequential/

07/11/2025

We are pleased to announce that Issue 11 is available online and in print!

https://athenaeumreview.org/issue/11/

Front Cover: Detail of Anna Sebastian, What We May Also Do, 2024. Mixed media on paper mounted on ply, 170 x 150 cm. Courtesy the artist and Verdurin, London