Features
Essays on arts and culture from around the world
MQR’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees
Sun Gets Enemy
On Perspective: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone, the Barbie movie, & Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Ananda Lima on Books she is looking forward to in 2024
On Arab American Women’s Anti-War Poetry
In with the Old: Boris Dralyuk’s My Hollywood and Other Poems
Serena Alagappan’s Sensitivity to (Cultural) Temperature
Ubiquitous Violence
Where the Music Plays: On “Tori Amos Bootleg Webring” by Megan Milks and Locating Queer and Trans Identity in Online Fandom’s Archives
Loving
Interviews
MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.
Discomposition: An Interview with Fred Moten
‘Those Cloudy Infinite Iterations of Self’: An Interview with Olivia Muenz
Identity to Affinity: A Conversation with Torrey Peters
Serena Alagappan’s Sensitivity to (Cultural) Temperature
In the Apocalypse, I hope to Die Immediately: An Interview with Rumaan Alam
Balance and Disquietude: An Interview with Wendy S. Walters
An Interview with Katie Kitamura
Joyce Carol Oates Looks Back on Her Wide-Ranging Work Through the Years
An Interview with Courtney Faye Taylor
Looking Is a Sacred Act: A Conversation with Sati Mookherjee
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Conversion’s Balance: On Jennifer Grotz’s Still Falling
Language Plays God: A review of Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise by Jennifer Metsker
On Perspective: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone, the Barbie movie, & Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
In with the Old: Boris Dralyuk’s My Hollywood and Other Poems
Where the Music Plays: On “Tori Amos Bootleg Webring” by Megan Milks and Locating Queer and Trans Identity in Online Fandom’s Archives
A Loud Grief: A Review of Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe
A Reconciliation with the External World: Timothy Donnelly’s Chariot
I Assemble, I Am: A Review of Roberto Tejada’s Why The Assembly Disbanded
A Review of H.R. Webster’s What Follows
A Review of Sarah Heady’s Comfort
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