Meridian, noun. 1.) A great circle on the Earth, passing from north to south, used to designate connection and continuity. 2.) Any of the pathways which energy flows through the human body.
Housed in Northeast Alabama, this independent journal’s mission is to bring together multiple academic fields and non-traditional voices in a place of sustained reflection and debate.
The North Meridian Review is an interdisciplinary journal of scholarship, culture, and the arts. Each issue is comprised of four broad sections. 1.) Peer reviewed scholarship in the fields of history, social sciences, and the humanities. 2.) Prose. 3.) Poetry. 4.) Book reviews.
The North Meridian Review.Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1 (2023)
Articles
Front Matter
North Meridian Review Staff
Introduction: A Time of Reflective Survival
Wesley R. Bishop
Prose
Memories in Translation, Part 2: Herta Gerber Testimonial and the Italian Holocaust
Valentina Concu and Wesley R. Bishop
The Power of Theatre in the Time of an American Nero
Marcia Eppich-Harris
A Long Time from Burdick Street
Luanne Castle
Of Ratner’s Born
Daniel Morris
Radio at Night
Wm. Anthony Connolly
Life, When It’s All Ruin
Michelle Moyd
Introduction: Poetry
Ricardo Quintana Vallejo
Isolation Affirmation
Tina Schumann
Grocery shopping
Patricia Thrushart
His new moustache
DS Maolalai
Far and Near
Xiaoly Li
A Gross Anachronism
Steven Luria Ablon
On the Day the Pandemic Was Declared
Elizabeth Weir
Uncertain Times
Kat Bodrie
Long Division in The Time of Quarantine
Ellen Sazzman
exit the immune system
Kate Pashby
Until We Hug Again
Mike Wilson
Stuck At Home
John Grey
Intensive Care Unit Blues
Gerard Sarnat
Digging for Lost Temples
David Estringel
Mask Making
Connemara Wadsworth
Book Reviews
Jess Montgomery. The Stills. New York: Minotaur Books, 2021.
Betty J. Bruther
Susan Abulhawa. Against the Loveless World: A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 2020.
Fouad Mami
Clint Jones. Stranger, Creature, Thing, Other: Monstruous Reflections on Our Ecostential Crisis. Stevens Point, Wisconsin: Cornerstone Press, 2019.
John William Nelson