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An Agenda of Smoke in Willie Lin’s Conversations Among Stones

On a quick pass through the first several poems in Willie Lin’s debut collection, Conversation Among Stones (2023), I somehow formed the impression that Lin rarely used the lyric “I”. When I went back to truly read the book, I saw that I was wrong. “I” appears in most poems, but so obliquely that the […]

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On a quick pass through the first several poems in Willie Lin’s debut collection, Conversation Among Stones (2023), I somehow formed the impression that Lin rarely used the lyric “I”. When I went back to truly read the book, I saw that I was wrong. “I” appears in most poems, but so obliquely that the

So Like a Waking

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead May walk again: If such thing be, thy mother Appear’d to me last night, for ne’er was dream So like a waking. —The Winter’s Tale “I’ll have a club soda,” I told the waiter, working

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead May walk again: If such thing be, thy mother Appear’d to me last night, for ne’er was dream So like a waking. —The Winter’s Tale “I’ll have a club soda,” I told the waiter, working

In Defense of Aunt Léonie

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Erica Webb on why she recommended “In Defense of Aunt Léonie” by Jodie Noel Vinson. The way Jodie Noel Vinson introduces Marcel Proust’s Léonie to us in her essay, “In Defense of Aunt Léonie,” is striking with a series of fragmented thoughts threaded together. This

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Erica Webb on why she recommended “In Defense of Aunt Léonie” by Jodie Noel Vinson. The way Jodie Noel Vinson introduces Marcel Proust’s Léonie to us in her essay, “In Defense of Aunt Léonie,” is striking with a series of fragmented thoughts threaded together. This

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Seven Ages’ Madness

Like all other important world cities, the great city of Aarhus, Denmark, has its own chronicler; an eminent writer whose accumulated fiction has become a topography by which readers can navigate the city. Paris has Honoré de Balzac, London has Charles Dickens, Barcelona has Carlos Ruiz Zafón, San Francisco has Armistead Maupin, and Aarhus has

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Like all other important world cities, the great city of Aarhus, Denmark, has its own chronicler; an eminent writer whose accumulated fiction has become a topography by which readers can navigate the city. Paris has Honoré de Balzac, London has Charles Dickens, Barcelona has Carlos Ruiz Zafón, San Francisco has Armistead Maupin, and Aarhus has

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10 Novels to Understand Rural America

It’s once again a presidential election year in the United States, and so I, like many other scholars of rural America, am bracing myself for an avalanche of simplistic political takes that paint rural America as a wasteland of conservative white people irretrievably behind the rest of the country. I study rural America through the

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It’s once again a presidential election year in the United States, and so I, like many other scholars of rural America, am bracing myself for an avalanche of simplistic political takes that paint rural America as a wasteland of conservative white people irretrievably behind the rest of the country. I study rural America through the

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