THE LAMPLIGHT REVIEW

Essays, reportage and fiction · Quarterly since 1998

Issue Fifty-One out now

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I In the winter of 1998 four of us put eight hundred pounds together and printed six hundred copies of something we could not really describe. We sold two hundred and gave away the rest. Twenty-eight years later the print run is eleven thousand and we still cannot describe it, which we have decided is the point. What we publish is whatever seems worth six thousand words, and what we will not publish is anything that could have been half as long.

IN ISSUE FIFTY-ONE

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AMARA OKONKWO

The Ninth Floor

Eleven thousand words inside the last working textile mill in Lancashire, and the family that will not sell it. Reportage.

GIDEON HALE

On Not Finishing Things

An essay about abandoned manuscripts, unplayed pianos and the particular shame of the half-read book.

FIONA TREMAYNE

Saltmarsh

A short story about an estuary, a marriage and a dog that will not come when called.

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