From Reinaldo Arenas: A Memoir of 1974
I’m writing this on Monday the 16th. I hear a motor outside; is it them? I write because I want these things to be known. If something should happen to me, it’s important that people know what happened and how.
Category Archives: Essay
Lies, Fame, Memory, Illness, and the Theater of Reza Abdoh
Salar Abdoh’s essay, “Lies, Fame, Memory, Illness, and the Theater of Reza Abdoh,” first appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review‘s Spring 2019 Special Issue on Iran. My brother, Reza, was always pissed off at me, as he often had to bail me out of tough situations.
Home and Spectacle
On some days, the news informs me of a school shooting, and I drive blind. My brain fixates on the violence like a new romance.
“A New Yorker from Canaguey”: Notes on Emilio Sánchez, MQR’s Summer 2019 Cover Artist
Former Curator of University of Michigan’s Museum of Art, Pam Reister, writes on the Cuban artist Emilio Sánchez, who is the cover artist of Michigan Quarterly Review’s current Summer 2019 issue. Emilio Sánchez was born into one of Cuba’s most prominent families. He lived in
Two Ships in the Cosmic Ocean: Reflections During the Viking Missions 1976
When I look at Viking l’s panorama I have an eerie sense that this may be what the Earth looked like before the origin of life-an interesting, reworked, eroded, developed landscape, but one without the transmuting presence of biology.