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The archive
Everything published by Lantern Hill Review since 2021, in reverse order of appearance. Numbering follows the issue in which a piece first ran.
Vol. III · No. 1
Why this review stays small: an editorial
Readers occasionally ask when the review will publish more often, or open to submissions, or cover the fair properly. The answer has stayed the same for several years, and it seems worth setting it down plainly.
Vol. II · No. 2
Marginalia, pencil marks and the used-book shelf
A book with nothing written in it has told you nothing about who read it. The used-book tables near the river are full of the opposite case, and they are the better teachers.
Vol. II · No. 3
A note on short story collections and how to read them
Most collections are read badly, and the fault is rarely the writer's. We approach them with novel-reading habits, and the form quietly punishes it.
Vol. I · No. 4
Reading in a second language, slowly and without shame
Reading in a second language begins as an exercise and, if you are patient, stops being one. The transition takes years, and almost nothing about it resembles the progress charts language courses promise.
Vol. I · No. 5
On rereading: what a second visit to a book actually gives
The first reading of a book is spent finding out what happens; almost everything else has to wait. A second reading is where the book begins to answer questions the reader did not know how to ask.
Pieces are revised rather than replaced, and the archive is not pruned. The editorial reasoning is set out in the editorial policy.