Features
Essays on arts and culture from around Michigan and around the world
Great Stuff, Cheers: Flannery O’Connor and I Read Marcel Proust
On the Creation of Other Worlds: A Response to “Against Leaving Him” by Christine Rhein
Listen Along: a Story of Divorce as Told by the Mountain Goats
In Tanzania
Petty Materialism: On Metaphor & Violence
On Soul
Threads pulled though: University of Michigan 1960-1964 to Now
A Way Out of No Way: Music and Way-Finding in the Re-Issue of Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic
Face Like a Watermelon Seed: Black Women and Chinese Beauty Standards
Bus Drivers and Fire Walkers: A Conversation between Niloufar Talebi and Amir Ahmadi Arian
Interviews
MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.
The Necessity of Community: An Interview with Alise Alousi
People of MQR: A Q&A with Aaron J. Stone
Politics as Central: An Interview with Keith Taylor
Unlocking Our Imaginations: An Interview with Petra Kuppers
Becoming Porous: An Interview with Kathleen Graber
Aesthetic enthusiasm: An Interview with Dunya Mikhail
It is Possible to Live with Ghosts: An Interview with Carribean Fragoza
Communicating with Spirit: An Interview with Cherise Morris
A Lifetime of Writing: Interview with Margaret Kimball
Ancestral Healing: An Interview with Katelyn Rivas
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Letting and Letting Go: Mask for Mask by JD Scott (New Rivers Press)
The Polarities of a Black Boy: a review of Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Dopplegangbanger
Mirrors and Portals: Sam Cohen’s Sarahland
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Exhaust the Little Moment: A Review of Roberto Carlos Garcia’s [Elegies]
The Wry Humor of Insomnia 11 by Michael C. Keith
Living Against Unlivability: A Review of A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Wit and Wisdom: Dora Malech’s Balancing Act Flourish
Familiarity and the Narrative Ledge: A Review of I Live in the Slums, a New Collection by Can Xue
Graphic Review: A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous
