The Evergreen Review

Dale Peck talks with Jeanne Thornton, author of the novel The Dream of Doctor Bantam and the collection The Black Emerald. They discuss Thornton’s relationship with the editing process, her experiences growing up in Texas, Ayn Rand, and Dirty Dancing. Her forthcoming novel Summer Fun is set to be released this summer, published by Soho Press. Thornton’s story “The Fountainhead” appears in Evergreen's Spring/Summer 2019 issue.

Mariam Bazeed reads “Found Poem Composed in Dearborn, Michigan” and its lineage. The poem appears in Evergreen's Fall/Winter 2020 issue. Mariam Bazeed [they/them] is a nonbinary Egyptian immigrant, writer, performer, and cook living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and personal essays, Mariam received an MFA in Fiction from Hunter College in 2018.

Editor-in-chief Dale Peck has a conversation with Chicago-based writer, academic, and activist Yasmin Nair. The two discuss the concept of genre, love and identity in activism, unconscious and structural racism in Chicago, and more. Nair is the co-founder of the radical queer editorial collective Against Equality, editor-at-large at Current Affairs and a member of Gender JUST Chicago. Her most recent essay, "So Long, and Thanks for Nothing," appeared in Evergreen’s summer 2020 issue. Her work can be found at yasminnair.net.

In 2018, during their last Eastern European tour, the Russian-American band Mad Meg recorded an entire album at Panevezys Correction House, the only women’s prison in Lithuania. The live album recorded at the prison was released right before the COVID-19 pandemic and the video for the single “Functioning Adult” was created and released while the band was in quarantine. Miracle Jones interviews Mad Meg about making the album and playing Eastern Europe in general.

At the 4th Singapore Literature Festival in NYC, poet, scholar, and activist Jackie Wang (Carceral Capitalism) speaks on the necessity for and future of the abolitionist approach to social reform. Moderated by journalist and activist Kirsten Han.

Dale Peck and Jeffery Renard Allen discuss the American mythology, William Faulkner, the African-American diaspora, and Allen's forthcoming memoir about his mother. Allen is an American poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. His essay "African Lives Matter: The Future Crisis," on the COVID-19 crisis in South Africa, was published in The Evergreen Review in summer 2020.

Dale Peck chats with Calvin Baker, author of the critically-acclaimed novels Naming the New World, Once Two Heroes, Dominion, and Grace. The two discuss the past and future of integration in the United States, race as the "organizing principle of American society," and Baker's new novel A More Perfect Reunion: Race Integration, and the Future of America, which is available now. The Evergreen Review published an excerpt from the novel in its summer 2020 issue.

In the first episode of The Evergreen Review Podcast, Dale Peck, editor-in-chief of The Evergreen Review and John Oakes, publisher of The Evergreen Review, discuss the magazine’s history, resurrection, and plans for the future.