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The Commander’s Teeth

Why I Chose It: MQR Reader Urvi Khumbat introduces Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s “The Commander’s Teeth,” which appears in our Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase it here. In “The Commander’s Teeth,” the protagonist—a dentistry student named Emilia—is confronted with the possibility of vengeance. As the title suggests, Emilia finds herself in close proximity with the teeth […]

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Why I Chose It: MQR Reader Urvi Khumbat introduces Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s “The Commander’s Teeth,” which appears in our Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase it here. In “The Commander’s Teeth,” the protagonist—a dentistry student named Emilia—is confronted with the possibility of vengeance. As the title suggests, Emilia finds herself in close proximity with the teeth

The Table

Michigan Quarterly Review reader Caroline New introduces “The Table” from MQR’s Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase the issue here. “The Table” offers us testimonies of Writer’s Block, a writing group for presently and formerly incarcerated people. From a bird’s-eye view, this essay reminds us of the inhumanities of our “justice” system, where goals of

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Michigan Quarterly Review reader Caroline New introduces “The Table” from MQR’s Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase the issue here. “The Table” offers us testimonies of Writer’s Block, a writing group for presently and formerly incarcerated people. From a bird’s-eye view, this essay reminds us of the inhumanities of our “justice” system, where goals of

Tubarão

Dudu coughs a little harder, the way his dad has coughed since the flight. A cough he thinks his uncles would cough after their cigars, fiercer than the coughs he has mastered at his school’s nurse’s office.

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Dudu coughs a little harder, the way his dad has coughed since the flight. A cough he thinks his uncles would cough after their cigars, fiercer than the coughs he has mastered at his school’s nurse’s office.

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