Stories Worth Telling: An Interview with Megha Majumdar
“I wanted the book to feel truthful and draw from what I have observed about society.”
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Interviews
Flip It And Reverse It: An Interview With Amy Sara Carroll
By all means, tear a page out of MQR’s Fall 2020 issue; to reorder something is not necessarily to destroy it
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Reading Mexican and Guatemalan Literatures in Translation: A Conversation Between Dr. Paul M. Worley and Dr. Rita M. Palacios
And so our work as literary critics, translators, and readers of Indigenous literatures is complex. We have to be aware of those essentialisms and the silences and violence they bring.
Prison Theatre and the High Stakes of Performance: Andrew Martinez in Conversation with Ashley Lucas
Whenever a performance actually happens, the very occurrence of getting everybody together and staging the play is in itself a miracle. When you start with those kinds of stakes, the theatre itself is primed for something truly wonderful.
Making a Community Safer: Courtney Wise Randolph and Heather Ann Thompson
The origin of the police is slave patrols. Human beings held in chattel slavery could not escape. Police were used to break strikes and make sure that people could not organize to have decent working conditions. So, the origins of the police were about protecting racial boundaries and protecting property.
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Losing Language to Find It: An Interview with Kaveh Akbar
One of the chief ways that language feels just vastly not up to the job is when I try to think about the divine, when I try to think about the power is greater than myself that governs my living and makes me want to live in a way that is counter to my nature.
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“Language is Evidence”: An Interview with Justin Rovillos Monson
I’m just saying this: Yes, I’m locked up, and it is hard. I don’t want to be here. I do not know what this sentence means. But I also hold joy. I am in love. I have fears. I have insecurities. I’m capable of violence. I’ve hurt people. I’ve helped people. And I am more than my struggles.
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Thinking Through Necessary Means: Interview with Wesley Brown and Ryan Matthews
In 1972, when I was in prison, there were about 250,000 people incarcerated nationally. And in the nearly fifty years since then, there are now some two and a half million people incarcerated.
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Language and Myth: Carmen Bugan interviews Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
I wanted every reader to think for herself about the importance and varieties of silence, as well as the importance of distinguishing them.
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The Rupture Point: Conversation with Abigail Chabitnoy
I don’t want this to be a cultural critique, or to garner attention as a poet only because the background seems exotic. I want the work to stand for the work.
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