Letter from the Editor

If you’re new to The Hopkins Review, welcome. You’re joining us at an appropriate moment, as this issue—my first as editor in chief—launches our new look and website, designed to be fresh, functional, and representative of the journal’s dynamic present and future. If you’re a longtime thr aficionado, you can expect your support to be matched by our continued commitment to creative and critical excellence. Three-quarters of the authors and artists you’ll encounter in this issue are first-time contributors to our pages, but you’ll likely recognize plenty of familiar award-winning names, alongside emerging writers we’re excited to champion. In this issue and beyond, you’ll cross languages, borders, and cultures; you’ll also experience the rich artistic life of thr’s home city. This juxtaposition of global and local reflects our belief in conversation across real and perceived distances—art and scholarship, tradition and innovation. Our community includes readers, writers, artists, and scholars; the staff of the Hopkins Press Journals Division; esteemed advisory and contributing editors; and a brilliant editorial team of mfa students in the Writing Seminars at jhu. We hope the issues in 2022’s volume—our 15th in thr’s “New Series,” founded by John T. Irwin in 2008—provide both escape and connection. Visit HopkinsReview.com to learn more about both thr’s history and its new initiatives, including our first literary awards—the Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize and the Anne Frydman Translation Prize.

Love from Baltimore,