We are pleased to announce that Michigan Quarterly Review has awarded this year’s trio of literary prizes to Rebecca Makkai, for a finely crafted story about connection and quiet reappraisals, Angie Estes, for two exquisite poems “balancing the omnipresence of death with the fragile pleasures of life,” and Margaret Reges, for her poems’ exuberant physical description.
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For a special issue on translation—in the broadest sense of the word—we welcome stories, poems, and essays that either exemplify translation as practice or meditate on translation as phenomenon.
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Jeffrey Meyers on Picasso, Hemingway, and Harold Loeb; a letter from Ernest Hemingway; Marshall Sahlins on Western Civilization; George Steinmetz on documenting Detroit; and Lee Zacharias on 1940s South Side Chicago.
Fiction by Susan Hahn and Castle Freeman, Jr.
Poetry by Laurence Goldstein, Steven Henry Madoff, Ann Folwell Stanford, D.H. Tracy, Laura Bernstein-Machlay, Donald Platt, and Helen Ransom Forman.
MQR 45:3 | Summer 2006 Read More »
Together with Part 2 (Winter 2006), this special issue offers detailed insight into the documentary imagination. Edited by Tom Fricke and Keith Taylor, this issue features: Mark Auslander on documenting the restoration of an African-American cemetery in Georgia; Barry Lopez interviewed by Michael Shapiro; Erik Mueggler on writing the imperial project; Eileen Pollack on a Jewish cemetery in Detroit; Tom Pohrt curating never-before-circulated photos from the Cuban revolution; Jonathan Raban on James Agee and the limits of documentary style; and Keith Taylor on finding in public records the true story of a relative’s suicide in western Canada.
MQR 44:4 | Fall 2005 Read More »
James Morrison on the fate of cinephilia; Susan Orlean on journeys; Elizabeth Kostova on Carthage through history; Irving Louis Horowitz on contemporary sociology; George Steinmetz in response to Horowitz; and Yu Xie on methodological contradictions in sociology
Fiction by Daniel Herwitz and Alice Mattison.
Poetry by Richard Howard, Susan Hahn, Mahmoud Darwish, Eugenio Montejo, Richard Cecil, Randy Blasing, Charles Harper Webb, and Paisley Rekdal.
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Essays by Mary Gordon, Clifford F. Wargelin, Steven Moore, and Robert Hahn.
Fiction by Herbert Gold, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Roderick.
Poetry by David Baker, Joyce Peseroff, Deborah Cummins, Jim Daniels, John Kinsella, Ann Keniston, David Plastrik, Robert Murdock, and Lisa Lewis.
Essays by Stacey Harwood, Frederick Busch, Jeffrey Meyers, Antoine de Tarlé, Anna Mollow, and Olga Grushin.
Fiction by Rebecca Meacham and David H. Lynn.
Poetry by Thylias Moss, Andrew Feld, Victoria Chang, Billy Collins, and Vicki Hearne.
Essays by Barbara Sjoholm, Lawrence Buell, Edmund White, Hilary Cunningham, and Lucía M. Suárez.
Fiction by Mildred Verba Morris, Alice Mattison, and David Zane.
Poetry by Diane Ackerman, Jim Daniels, Gabriel Spera, Sarah Gorham, Keith Taylor, Anne Stevenson, Wililam Baer, Charles Harper Webb, and Cathleen Calbert.
Essays by Tobin Siebers, David Haven Blake, Kathryn Rhettl; an interview with Clifford Odets and Robert H. Hethman.
Fiction by Greg Johnson and Lynn Freed.
Poetry by Paisley Rekdal, Timothy Liu, John Greening, and Campbell McGrath.
Essays by David M. Halperin, Josip Novakovich, Marcel Marceau, Karen R. Miller; a conversation with Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and William Baer.
Fiction by Jody Lisberger, Clark Blaise, and Millicent Dillon.
Poetry by Alexander Theroux, Carolyne Wright, Stephen Yenser, Edwin Honig, Mark Jarman, Glenna Holloway, Mike Puican, and Angela Patten.
