The Panacea Review

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 second issue features work from Padgett Powell, Mary Ruefle, Avi Loeb, Matthew Gasda, Daniel Wilson, Charlie Sterchi, Mitchell Galloway, Ari Moline, Daisy Cashin, Noah Kumin, Tom Ianelli, Sam Frank Jr., Grace H. Zhou, Jim Hanas, Zachary Scott, Michael Chang, and more.

PADGETT POWELL (The Interrogative Mood): Defiant responses to notes from a sensitivity reader

MARY RUEFLE (The Book): A list of envelope labels used to sort found photographs

DANIEL WILSON (@greatbritisharchitecture): An influencer visits historic village churches in Britain

AVI LOEB (Interstellar): Could we detect a nuclear war on an exoplanet?

NOAH KUMIN (The Mars Review of Books): A yankee contemplates languorous living in mossy Gainesville

MICHAEL CHANG (Things A Bright Boy Can Do): Six new poems on performativity, Jimmy Baldwin, and the interests of the moose

JIM HANAS (Why They Cried): An antonymic translation

GRACE H. ZHOU (Soil Called a Country): Two poems from the mountains of Kyrgyzstan

Plus, the Shakespeare Authorship Debate:

Poems by EDWARD DE VERE, the leading alternative candidate, including accounts from his contemporaries

Historic speculation on the authorship question

MATTHEW GASDA (The Sleepers) offers a democratic defense of the Shakespeare of Stratford