The Whitney Review of New Writing #7

A biannual print review dedicated to new writing founded and edited by Whitney Mallett and art directed by Immanuel Yang.

In this issue:

Spring/Summer 2026

Issue 007

This issue is about freedom, magick, image, and interference. 

The seventh issue of The Whitney Review of New Writing marks three years of the project’s evolving interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. The new issue features conversations between Christina Catherine Martinez and Ariana Reines, Darius James and Taylor Lewandowski, Lisa Carver and Esra Padgett, and Sophie Becker with Bonnie Erickson, the designer of Miss Piggy; essays by Cristine Brache, manuel arturo abreu, and Savannah Knoop; poetry by Precious Okoyomon; and over 70 short-form reviews: contributors like A. S. Hamrah, Grace Byron, Tash Nikol, Drew Zeiba, Blush Bullseye, Funto Omojola, Brad Phillips, Saam Niami, Morgan Becker, Eric Schwartau, Skype Williams, Paul Kopkau, and Mark Iosifescu respond to new writing across fiction, performance, poetry, art, theory, politics, and the in-between.

Contributors

Ariana Reines, Precious Okoyomon, Cristine Brache, Sophie Becker, Funto Omojola, Tash Nikol, Brandon Harris, Taylor Lewandowski, Esra Padgett, manuel arturo abreu, Savannah Knoop, A. S. Hamrah, Travis Jeppesen, Jack Skelley, Camille Bacon, Brad Phillips, Emma Reeves, Nicole Kaack, Drew Zeiba, Michael Bullock, Mayah Monet Lovell, Lars Byrresen Petersen, Summer Guthery, Maya Martinez, Fabiola Ching, Conor Williams, and many more.

Books Reviewed

P.E.A.C.E., Compost after Reading, Godlike, Lesbian Body, Exocapitalism, Jaw Filler, Lovers XXX, New Skin, Dara Zine, Jack the Modernist, Fuck Journal, The Hunger, Your Name Here, Trip, Hurricane Envy, Lives of the Saints, Shanzhai Lyric, The Vivisectors, Vaim, Young Man in a Hurry, Writer's Diary, Otherhow, ʔbédayine, Fashion Under Fascism, My Lover, The Rabbi, Private I, To Entertain, Lee & Elaine, Dream Facades, raw & zero, Don’t Step Into My Office, The Wonderful World that Almost Was, The Water Bearers, Invocation of My Demon Brother, Élisabeth, Discipline, Permanence, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Sadly Glass, Drenched in Light, Self-Romancing, SOULMATE AS A VERB, Kembra Pfahler, Devour Me, The Pedestrian, Failson, and many more.

Featured Interviews

Lisa Carver, Christina Catherine Martinez, and Darius James.