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.
Like Drinking Water: A Conversation with Ben Okri
AN INTERVIEW WITH ILYA KAMINSKY
Using Big Tech’s Tools to Critique Big Tech: An Interview with Vauhini Vara about “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”
Bringing Home the Broken Things: Nancy Miller Gomez and the Poetry of Inconsolable Objects
Confidant and Conduit: An Interview with Jared Lemus
Complicating Truth: An Interview with Emily Greenberg
A Dual and Oscillating Reality: An Interview with Lindsey Drager
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
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
Understanding the history of deportation: a review of Désirée Zamorano’s “Dispossessed”
Untranslatable Intimacies: A Review of Ann Jäderlund’s Lonespeech
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
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