Dispatches: The Disbelief of Suspension
There is something, if not biblical, then numinous, mystical even, about the truths this virus manages to reveal about us.
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Arts & Culture
Dispatches: Brussels
But, because public health and safety is a balancing act between freedom and restriction, we are also encouraged to exercise in the open air—as long as we don’t stop, gather in groups, or play games.
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Dispatches: Detroit & Flint
Surely, we’ll be spared. I remind myself of this every day while Detroit’s numbers rise, and FEMA makes a 1,000-bed hospital on the Detroit River because poverty we learn, or are reminded anew, is a comorbidity, and grief comes first to those well-acquainted with it.
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Dispatches: New York & Iran
MQR is bringing you dispatches from contributors and friends of the journal around the world, sharing the particularities of how the COVID-19 virus has impacted their communities (both literary and geographical). Thank you to our contributors for their willingness to share their thoughts with us. Your Day and Your Life are One and the Same
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The Long Walk with Giant Boy Away from Drought
It was not just the weight of the burdens they were carrying, but the heavier burden of a world in chaos.
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(Not) Content Not Curated
On being introduced to new art—ahem, content—via a short story about street hip-hop and crate digging, among other things . Before I knew it, I was surrounded. They were all around me, pressing closer and closer, and their eyes were piercing. Every time I turned my head, it seemed I was making eye contact with
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Where are the POC in Holiday Films?
These films offer artifacts of our American film heritage, inventing a coziness and togetherness of Christmas with a dash of entertainment that is apparently only available to and enjoyed by white people.
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Composition of a Fall
All of them appeared to be composed of sharp angles between muscle and bone, stretched taught and teasing the notion that a body can rip—that theirs hadn’t yet.
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Looking for Germany
Before long, I found myself thinking and dreaming in German, and I wondered what Dad would have thought of that.
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Island; I-land: Eye-Land: Caliban on Sugar Island
But golden eras—like edens—end. Even the magic of Prospero’s island, we assume, departs with him, for better or worse. For Sugar Island, much like Prospero’s, the beginning of the final days came with a shipwreck.
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