The Suburban Review MUSCLE flexes, pumps, and presses at our hearts; it resists its own weight. Read new poetry and prose that gets the endorphins going.
Cover artist Melak Khaleel celebrates Palestinian strength and resistance, and poet Nupur Shah shares an elegy for ‘those whom death and displacement have branded forever’. Grace Heyer commits every moment to (muscle) memory, while Holly Isemonger tallies prayers and injuries. Spot David Stavanger at the gym as he counts existential reps, and witness Brooke Scobie’s verse sharpen and stretch. On the fiction front, Alex Philp’s protagonist wrestles with a slippery situation.