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Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because the majority are from the United States , the country of origin is only listed for those outside the U.S.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The New York Review was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, together with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth [5] and writer Elizabeth Hardwick.They were backed and encouraged by Epstein's husband, Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House and editor of Vintage Books, and Hardwick's husband, poet Robert Lowell.
Homeownership has long been known as a tool for building wealth and lifting Americans into the middle class. But a new report highlights other ways in which renting burdens many households ...
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. [1] The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. [2] Kirkus Reviews confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature.
Mangione’s writings have faced intense scrutiny in the past 24 hours as authorities attempt to sort out a possible motive for the cold-blooded murder of Thompson last Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan.
The New Haven Review is a not-for-profit quarterly literary journal founded in August 2007 and located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded as The New Haven Review of Books , the magazine "was founded to resuscitate the art of the book review and draw attention to Greater New Haven-area writers."