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Summer 2024

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

Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 I was much and no onethought precious. When I cried,it was a small event. I never spoke a word; silence spoke for me. My pills were white and summeryellow. Mood smoothas a shorn lamb. As the daysslipped, my shadowslendered until no longersolely mine. Thought the mirror wasa portrait, I

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 I was much and no onethought precious. When I cried,it was a small event. I never spoke a word; silence spoke for me. My pills were white and summeryellow. Mood smoothas a shorn lamb. As the daysslipped, my shadowslendered until no longersolely mine. Thought the mirror wasa portrait, I

It’s Important I Remember That the Enemy Is Always Within—

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 it had never been more evident to me than that night.In the evening, I slid over to the main library to visit her while I knew she was on the clock for work study. Exams were coming up anyway, so I thought: why learna lesson alone when you can

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 it had never been more evident to me than that night.In the evening, I slid over to the main library to visit her while I knew she was on the clock for work study. Exams were coming up anyway, so I thought: why learna lesson alone when you can

Meet Our Contributors | Issue 63:3 | Summer 2024

NATALIE BAKOPOULOS is the author of Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has appeared in Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. CHAUN BALLARD is a member of the

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NATALIE BAKOPOULOS is the author of Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has appeared in Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. CHAUN BALLARD is a member of the

For Girls Who Talk Too Much at Lunch

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Daughter of two accountants, I tallymy contributions with standardized tests, testing my ABC English to bestthe born-here kids. Race through Chinatown alley, up Washington and Grant and more Calistreets named for dead presidents who addressedimmigration like it’s a problem of pestcontrol—De, are you

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 You can purchase our Summer issue here. Daughter of two accountants, I tallymy contributions with standardized tests, testing my ABC English to bestthe born-here kids. Race through Chinatown alley, up Washington and Grant and more Calistreets named for dead presidents who addressedimmigration like it’s a problem of pestcontrol—De, are you

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