Features
Essays on arts and culture from around the world
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
Cooking Under Siege: How Gazans Reinvent Recipes Amid Food Scarcity
Will Summay Wins MQR’s 2025 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets
Rheology: Instructions for Losing a Mother
Wildfire Weather Conditions and the Poetry of Place
The Memoir of the Moment: Finding My Way with Malala Yousafzai
The Exultation of Tin Fish
Interviews
MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.
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
The Ever-changing Shape of Friendship: Lillian Li on Bad Asians
On the Edge of the World: An Interview with Michael Welch
I Came Here for Poetry: An Interview with Valencia Robin
Surprise Along The Journey: An Interview with Kim Samek
Transforming the Zombie: An Interview with Bryan Byrdlong
Art, Sex, Power, and Exquisite Writing: An Interview with Larissa Pham
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
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
Gather the Fuel and Laugh: A Review of Lori Ostlund’s “Are You Happy?”
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