Witness is one of the absolutely very best literary magazines in America. I am a particular fan of Witness s theme issues, which gain more ground on their subjects than most books do. The poems I read at the National Book Award ceremony first appeared in Witness . The writing in Witness , whether by well-known writers or by those emerging, is consistently rich, keenly intelligent, and unrelentingly honest. Witness is dynamic and full of surprises a magazine that truly bears witness to our complex and often bewildering issues.
Witness is simply what it proclaims a witness to our ungainly evolution.
It is an irreplaceable window. Think of a topic. Witness will cover it, from first page to last, with superlative voices of conviction. When the author s ideas are bigger than the author you get exuberant essay and energetic story.