The Panacea Review: Issue Three

The Panacea Review places contemporary writing alongside work from previous centuries, with a special focus on ephemera: letters, lists, and found writing.KERI MILLER reviews a metafictional play at the Southern Mississippi Correctional InstituteRICK MOODY (Hotels of North America) catalogues emails from 2010, revisiting collaborations with musicians and artists during the tailing off of the glory daysCOREY MILLER: Four poems about coal mining, the pandemic, and grappling with bitternessPHILIP TRAYLEN begs for money with a prose style that would make Nietzsche weep coinsALBERTINE CLARKE (The Body Builders): Revolution leaves NYC in ruins, yet he wants anal?JOY WILLIAMS (The Pelican Child): A commonplace book with clippings from AZ and WYMYLES ZAVELO: A voice-driven story of a stalker confrontedMATTHEW GASDA (Stranger Beauty): The Milquetoast Review staff unionizes summeringJACK CUTHBERTSON: A right-wing rock band controls the worldSANDRA SIMONDS (Burning Oracle): Artic collages made in SvalbardWith stories by JULIA BRENNAN, VICTOR FLORENCE, QUINN ADIKES, TEEGE BRAUNE, EVAN GRILLON, JG ANNINO, and THEO CIPERSKIPoems by DANNY DUFFY, AARON BARRY, SAM SHOPP, DANIEL W.K. LEE, ALLISON ARGUMEDO, and MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURGAnd nonfiction from ELLIOT REED, DIANE MITCHELL, JUSTIN MANLEY, CHARLIE O'LEARY and morePLUS, WRITING AND THE LAW: Letters from a 19th-century German lawyer chastising his bookish son's Faustian pursuits; a self-represented plaintiff's quixotic quest to produce the odd-sized booklets required in Supreme Court cases; a son discovers a legal agreement between his parents; and the Archbishop of Canterbury orders the burning of satires