Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here An original version of this essay was given as the Saif Al-Ghobash Lecture in Translation, an annual lecture held by the Banipal Trust of London, and was delivered on February 8, 2024. As the parenthetic part of the title suggests, this essay was […]
Stations in Translation: Power, Eros, and Betrayal (After Gaza) Read More »
My first contact with Larry was in 1991, long before I joined the University of Michigan. I was in Cairo at the time, and as a poet starting out, I was simply overjoyed to receive a letter of acceptance from the Michigan Quarterly Review. Larry invited me a few years later to write a review
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As we were assembling this issue and imagining the contributions we would receive, we foresaw some of the challenges that the theme of American democracy would present to our contributors. Over the ages, a great deal of ink, paper, and pixels have been spent on politics, in belles-lettres, the press, and academia. Political chatter on
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In the words of Stephanie Glazier, we, having gotten to what seems like a cultural and political impasse, are seeking “something that means / not only sings praise.” And as if responding to the same impulse, Yun Wei tells us that we need to go beyond our familiar routes or roads, we must invent ways of moving and growing that will carry us with them and assure us that “this is not the end.”
Foreword: Celebrating Our Emerging Writers Read More »
This special issue celebrates Michigan Quarterly Review’s sixtieth anniversary, a remarkable milestone for any publication, let alone one devoted exclusively to literature and the arts. A special selection of previously published works was one of the first things we decided on for celebrating our anniversary. For several years at MQR we have been exploring and
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