Features
Essays on arts and culture from around the world
Ghost Pepper
Shadow Theater as a “portal in which we understand our humanity”
Portrait of a Japanese-American family during WWII: An interview with D.K. Furutani
Power, Perception, and Famous Men: An Interview with Julie Buntin
Collaborative Translation: Creativity & Praxis
“Wild Turkey” by Hasan Dudar: Exclusive Fiction from Carryout
From the Archives: Three Ounces or Less by Hannah Thurman
Katherine Gaffney Wins The 2026 Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry for “Abecedarian for my Mother’s Grief”
Ariel Katz Wins The 2026 Jesmyn Ward Prize in Fiction for “Family Collection”
Savannah Balmir Bowen Wins MQR’s 2025 Lawrence Prize in Fiction
Interviews
MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.
An Interview with Sarah Anderson
Yes to Life: An Interview with Acie Clark
Portrait of a Japanese-American family during WWII: An interview with D.K. Furutani
Power, Perception, and Famous Men: An Interview with Julie Buntin
An Interview with Aruni Kashyap
Unlocking the Power of Limitation: An Interview with Jamil Kochai
An Interview with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Be As Weird As You Want: An Interview with Sarah Wang
An Interview With Craig Santos Perez
An Interview with Edward Salem
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Alone Together: A Review of Mark Haber’s Ada
A Generous Disruption: On Megan Milks’s Mega Milk
The Loneliness of Greatness: A Review of E.Y. Zhao’s Underspin
The Art of World-Building: Salah el Moncef’s The Woman from Warsaw
The Ordinary and Exquisite Madness of Domestic Life: A Feminist Reading of Yoko Ogawa’s The Diving Pool
Survival: A Review of The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza
Addressing the Body: Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s “Mothersalt”
Inside the Place, but not of It; A Review of Michael Clune’s “Pan”
You Will Not be Saved: Review of Vincent Delecroix’s “Small Boat”
Tezer Özlü’s Pilgrimage to the Graves of Kafka, Svevo, and Pavese and Into Her Own Mind
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