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Like Drinking Water: A Conversation with Ben Okri

Ben Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. His books include the eco-fable Every Leaf a Hallelujah, the play Changing Destiny, the genre-bending climate fiction Tiger Work, the poetry […]

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Ben Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. His books include the eco-fable Every Leaf a Hallelujah, the play Changing Destiny, the genre-bending climate fiction Tiger Work, the poetry

Understanding the history of deportation: a review of Désirée Zamorano’s “Dispossessed”

“Manuel wondered why everyone was so fucking afraid of Mexicans.” It is 1992. Manuel joins his daughter to protest Prop 187 at City Hall in Los Angeles. That same year, I marched with other students at the Federal Building in Westwood to oppose the same proposition. But it could be 2025. Today, we witness another

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“Manuel wondered why everyone was so fucking afraid of Mexicans.” It is 1992. Manuel joins his daughter to protest Prop 187 at City Hall in Los Angeles. That same year, I marched with other students at the Federal Building in Westwood to oppose the same proposition. But it could be 2025. Today, we witness another

Marla and Ben, and Anansi and Tiger

Published in Issue 64.2: Spring 2025 You can purchase our Spring issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Renée Flory on why she recommended “Marla and Ben, and Anansi and Tiger” for the Spring 2025 issue.  The opening line of Subraj Singh’s “Marla and Ben, and Anansi and Tiger” is breathless, vivid, and wildly compelling: “Before

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Published in Issue 64.2: Spring 2025 You can purchase our Spring issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Renée Flory on why she recommended “Marla and Ben, and Anansi and Tiger” for the Spring 2025 issue.  The opening line of Subraj Singh’s “Marla and Ben, and Anansi and Tiger” is breathless, vivid, and wildly compelling: “Before

Sittenfeld Superfan

“This was the one boarding school story I’d never told,” teases Lee Fiora in the opening paragraphs of “Lost but Not Forgotten,” the last of a dozen stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. It’s a juicy opener, one that prompted me to arrange an interview with Sittenfeld over Zoom, ostensibly

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“This was the one boarding school story I’d never told,” teases Lee Fiora in the opening paragraphs of “Lost but Not Forgotten,” the last of a dozen stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. It’s a juicy opener, one that prompted me to arrange an interview with Sittenfeld over Zoom, ostensibly

Ditch and Drain

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

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