This issue of MQR brings together academic essays, high-level journalism, personal narratives, fiction, poetry, and visual art responding to the transformations of Jewish experience in the United States during the last fifty years, and, speculatively, extending into the twenty-first century.
Essays by Barbara Sjoholm, Lawrence Buell, Edmund White, Hilary Cunningham, and LucÃa 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.
Essays by William Bolcom, Sandra Seaton, Ilan Stavans, Juan Abreu, Manfred Weidhorn, Philip D. Beidler, Lisa Knopp, Emily Grosholz, and a conversation with Gustavo Perez Firmat and Bruce Allen Dick.
Fiction by Luisa Mercedes Levinson and Marco Denevi.
Poetry by Daniel Mark Epstein, Sarah Hannahm, Bob Hicok, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Mark Halliday, Randy Blasing, and Anne Stevenson.
Essays by Bruce Fleming, Angela Yiu, Natsume Soseki, Andrea Barrett, Carolyn Steedman, and Sterling Watson.
Fiction by Lucy Ferriss, and Jiri Kajane.
Poetry by Stephen Dunn, Carol Frost, Lance Larsen, Charles Harper Webb, Kate Northrop, Susan Hahn, David Wojahn, and Henry Hart.
Essays by Toni Morrison, Thomas J. Cottle, Denis Dutton, Simon Gikandi, Mark Halliday, and Jane Burbank.
Fiction by Robert Wexelblatt, Jessica Francis Kane, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Poetry by Terry Blackhawk, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Gary Soto, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Carl Phillips.
In this special issue of 292 pages, including a full-color portfolio of artwork, MQR sponsors an in-depth examination of how places—those we live in, those we visit, and those we dream about—affect our imaginations, and how we in turn make a home for ourselves in them, or stigmatize them as unworthy of our best values. Scholarly and personal essays focus on discrete places; fiction, poetry, and book reviews enhance the issue’s range and depth.
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This issue is dominated by a symposium of some thirty writers from different fields responding to a question about the most memorable secret space of their own childhoods. Their mini-essays are not only descriptive but analytical, as they reflect on the state of childhood itself, in personal experiences, in texts, in modern culture. Ranging from a long paragraph to several pages, these commentaries provide an iconography of the state of childhood that will interest scholars of the field as well as general readers.
In this special issue, authors from a variety of fields explore the imaginative world of childhood, how children seek refuge from adult society in realms that paradoxically ease their way into adulthood, carrying with them the felt memories of transcendent and transgressive experience, sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrible.
