The Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed, named Rolf Potts’ “Tourist Snapshots,” from The Common Issue 03, as a Notable Essay of 2012.
Al-Fadjr, an Algerian daily, covers The Common‘s growing international presence and work with Arab literature.
Ammoun, the top news website in Jordan, features The Common‘s collaboration with Hisham Bustani.
The Review Review interviews editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker on “capturing the essence of somewhere particular.”
The 26th Annual New York Book Show recognized The Common Issues 01 and 02, which won a second place literary magazine design award.
The Boston Globe features The Common in “Read Local,” a piece that compares the magazine to farmers’ markets.
The Millions affirms The Common‘s mission; essayist Sonya Chung says that, through The Common, “I seem to find my nowhere-somewhere, a peculiar feeling of home; my modern sense of place.”
Orion Magazine welcomes The Common’s first issue with open arms, praising the magazine’s beauty, contributors and dedication to print.
Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winner, former Poet Laureate, and Editorial Board member for The Common, celebrated his 90th birthday on March 1. Here are photos from his birthday celebration at Amherst College.
The Common is heralded in today’s Inside Higher Ed.
“The last few years had many literary journal editors’ backs against the wall. Numerous journals teetered between shuttering and downsizing.
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