Features
Essays on arts and culture from around the world
The Lonely Voice and the Public Art of Criticism: A Reflection in Fragments
I AM THE SPEAKER OF THE POEM: An Interview with Adele Elise Williams
The Capacity of Male Friendship in Hisham Matar’s My Friends
Liberation Pedagogy at the People’s University for Gaza
Seven Ages’ Madness
10 Novels to Understand Rural America
Analogy and Tragedy in Israel’s War on Gaza
The Sisters
A Moment That You Couldn’t Tell: Riding the Gradient of the Lyric Essay
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“Who is Without Echo?”: The Future Reader of Fady Joudah’s […]
Interviews
MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.
Unbelonging Where I Belong: An Interview with Monica Youn
Cutting the Fat of Pain: An Interview with Jane Wong
Relentless, After All: An Interview with Danika Stegeman
You Get What You Pay For: An Interview with Morgan Parker
Writing Under Censorship: An Interview with the Pakistani writer Munib Khan
Standing at the edge: An interview with divya victor
A Conversation Between Michael O’Ryan and Karen Solie
You Have to Follow Your Own Music: Malia Maxwell in Conversation with Aria Aber
Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Sawako Nakayasu
The Allure Is the Masquerade: An Interview with Karen Rigby
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
The Novel in Circular Streams: Raymond Queneau’s The Skin of Dreams
“Every being is harnessed to another and another and soon”: Harmonizing the Whole in Alessandra Lynch’s Wish Ave
Hope is a Choice: A Review of Ranjit Hoskote’s Trilogy—Jonahwhale (2018), Hunchprose (2021), Icelight (2023)
We, Sonnet: Language, Love, and Power in the Poems of Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee
Survival and Remembrance in Wartime Beirut
C.P. Jude reviews There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Capacity of Male Friendship in Hisham Matar’s My Friends
An Agenda of Smoke in Willie Lin’s Conversations Among Stones
Seven Ages’ Madness
10 Novels to Understand Rural America
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