TriQuarterly is one of the literary magazines in the country. This work features themes of violence and transgression in law and literature. It includes contributions form Michael Lesy on Chicago murders from the 1920s; novelist and law professor Lan Cao on Chinese immigration; poet and fiction writer Jana Harris on lawlessness; and others.

Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, ""TriQuarterly"" has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of poet Susan Firestone Hahn, ""TriQuarterly"" continues to publish the best work of both established and new poets and fiction writers. ""TriQuarterly 124"" will be guest-edited by Leigh Buchanan Bienen and will feature themes of violence and transgression in law and literature. Contributions include Michael Lesy on Chicago murders from the 1920s; novelist and law professor Lan Cao on Chinese immigration in the past and present; poet and fiction writer Jana Harris on lawlessness in a nineteenth-century frontier town; Austin Sarat on the rhetoric of contemporary clemency proceedings, and other essays addressing the intersections between law, literature, and murder.