The Panacea Review: Issue One

The Panacea Review is a literary journal with a special focus on ephemera: letters, diaries, notes, and all the flotsam and jetsam that rarely leaves the drawer. The inaugural issue features work from Tony Tulathimutte, Chante Reid, Rick Moody, Amrapali Maitra, Mariana Roa Oliva, Elliot Reed, Susan Cerulean, Axel Void, Zoë Dutka, Kelly Karivalis, Givens Parr, Jeff Horn, Trevor Crown, M. C. Jia, Danny Hoang, Griffin Smith, and more.

ELLIOT REED (author of A Guide to Treehouse Living): A fragmented essay on gravity, water, consciousness, and fatherhood during the Asheville floods;

CHANTE REID (Thot): A short story about a prideful filmmaker with an academic agenda shooting a documentary in a Bronx housing complex;

RICK MOODY (Hotels of North America): Ten poems on pleading the fifth, home repairs, and a butterfly refuge along the southern border;

TONY TULATHIMUTTE (Rejection): A thesis on projection, rejection, and abjection; plus the myth of Timagoras and Meles;

AMRAPALI MAITRA: Parvati shops for a new bathtub in a retelling of the birth of Ganesha;

SUSAN CERULEAN (Coming to Pass): On listening to wild plovers along the Gulf of Mexico;

MARIANA ROA OLIVA (Seedlings_:Walk in Time): On internet detritus and petty animals;

and more.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF WRITING

“The Ephemeral Manifesto” calls on writers to resist AI through analog tech;
“Humanitatis Intelligentia Naturae” lists web domains used for AI inference as a textual object;
AI-written haikus summarize daily news.

John Moran is the founder and editor of The Panacea Review. His work has appeared in Little Star, Subtropics, Southern Cultures, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Foglifter. He received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown (fiction) and a PhD in anthropology from Stanford.