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My Left Hand, Unholy

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana […]

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana

Blue skies, Birdsong

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Do you know about the 1997 coup d’état in Sierra Leone? You might have heard about it if you saw that 2006 Leo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, which did a surprisingly good job with the subject matter, given the Hollywood factor. But this

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Do you know about the 1997 coup d’état in Sierra Leone? You might have heard about it if you saw that 2006 Leo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, which did a surprisingly good job with the subject matter, given the Hollywood factor. But this

Excerpts From Skyside

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

The Easy Part

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 Who wouldn’t want to marry a minor character? said Marcos. And he thought that someone should have written first about Raúl’s rust-colored eyes, or at least have had the urge. They were on the small terrace behind the restaurant, a cement square between three buildings where the coworkers who’d

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 Who wouldn’t want to marry a minor character? said Marcos. And he thought that someone should have written first about Raúl’s rust-colored eyes, or at least have had the urge. They were on the small terrace behind the restaurant, a cement square between three buildings where the coworkers who’d

Mother of Stone

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. We worshipped her, sitting like obedient dogs at the base of her dress madeof coquina. Our father stole bricks from a fort we visited on vacation. Shecould not bend down to help us, and it appeared as though she had no face,even though

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. We worshipped her, sitting like obedient dogs at the base of her dress madeof coquina. Our father stole bricks from a fort we visited on vacation. Shecould not bend down to help us, and it appeared as though she had no face,even though

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