Summer 2024 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Summer 2024

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

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

Archival

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Diana Al-Hadid, Henry Art Gallery, 2021I descend the gallery stairs to the history of womenwhere my legs are cut off at the knee. Carved with the knife of ecstasy. I lie down halvednext to the instrument of my thinking.Not the bodiless head but

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Diana Al-Hadid, Henry Art Gallery, 2021I descend the gallery stairs to the history of womenwhere my legs are cut off at the knee. Carved with the knife of ecstasy. I lie down halvednext to the instrument of my thinking.Not the bodiless head but

Ideal Customers

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 The shoe was too big; it usually was. The customers at Manson’s Menswear were often still acquainting themselves with the quirks of men’s sizing, and they tended to overestimate, trying to will their feet into a more expansive existence. The guy Gemma was serving—short, red-haired, with the same cringing

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 The shoe was too big; it usually was. The customers at Manson’s Menswear were often still acquainting themselves with the quirks of men’s sizing, and they tended to overestimate, trying to will their feet into a more expansive existence. The guy Gemma was serving—short, red-haired, with the same cringing

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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