Features

Essays on arts and culture from around Michigan and around the world

On Philip Levine’s “To Cipriano, in the Wind”

Edward Hirsch daweaver October 15, 2021

Why the Wee-Bots Write: Stories from Young Writers

MQR Staff Hannah Rose Webster October 6, 2021

Reckoning with Familial Origins: Kelly Fordon on Why She Writes

Kelly Fordon Hannah Rose Webster September 13, 2021

Great Stuff, Cheers: Flannery O’Connor and I Read Marcel Proust

Jonathan Russell Clark talmujah April 22, 2021

On the Creation of Other Worlds: A Response to “Against Leaving Him” by Christine Rhein

Connor Greer talmujah March 3, 2021

Listen Along: a Story of Divorce as Told by the Mountain Goats

Liz Declan talmujah February 15, 2021

In Tanzania

Aaliyah Bilal Hannah Rose Webster December 31, 2020

Petty Materialism: On Metaphor & Violence

Eunsong Kim Hannah Rose Webster December 23, 2020

On Soul

Aaliyah Bilal talmujah November 28, 2020

Threads pulled though: University of Michigan 1960-1964 to Now

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi talmujah October 9, 2020

Interviews

MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.

A Q&A with Fall 2021 Cover Artist Krista Franklin

MQR Staff Hannah Rose Webster October 11, 2021

On Writing, Teaching and Believing in Your Story: An Interview with Jeff Kass

Lillian Pearce Hannah Rose Webster October 8, 2021

Creating Community: An Interview with Esperanza Cintrón

Lillian Pearce Hannah Rose Webster September 30, 2021

Writing as Remembrance, Negotiation, and Intention: An Interview with Tariq Luthun

Lillian Pearce Hannah Rose Webster September 23, 2021

808s & Otherworlds: An Interview with Sean Avery

Sam Small Sam Small September 13, 2021

I’m Not Invisible: An Interview with Joe Harjo

Katie Willingham Hannah Rose Webster September 10, 2021

Craft New Worlds: An Interview with Nadine MARS

Lillian Pearce Hannah Rose Webster September 7, 2021

Excavating a Personal History: An Interview with Sharanya Manivannan

Priyanka Sacheti Hannah Rose Webster August 30, 2021

Decades of Fire: An Interview with Spring 2022 Guest-Editor Huda Fakhreddine

talmujah talmujah August 28, 2021

Holding Many Truths: An Interview with Marlin M. Jenkins

Marlin M. Jenkins Sam Small August 23, 2021

Book Reviews

MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.

Revolt in the Age of Neoliberalism: Revolutionary Rehearsals 1989–2019

Fouad Mami daweaver October 22, 2021

Process and Product: CAConrad’s AMANDA PARADISE

Kevin O’Rourke daweaver October 18, 2021

“Specks of the Universe”: Fady Joudah’s Tethered to Stars

Deema K. Shehabi Hannah Rose Webster October 13, 2021

Scriptio Continua: Lauren Levin’s Nightwork

Kevin O’Rourke Hannah Rose Webster September 20, 2021

A Call From Another Galaxy: A Review of Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alán Peláez López

Marco Antonio Huerta Alardín Hannah Rose Webster September 8, 2021

My Empire and My God: A Review of Pilgrim Bell

Elisa Rowe talmujah July 30, 2021

A Lyrical Poet Who Maintains the Equilibrium: A Review of A Kinship with Ash

Carole Mertz talmujah July 29, 2021

Transformation in Transit: Review of Darla Himeles’s Poetry Collection, Cleave

MC Catanese talmujah July 19, 2021

Letting and Letting Go: Mask for Mask by JD Scott (New Rivers Press)

Cristina J. Baptista talmujah June 10, 2021

The Polarities of a Black Boy: a review of Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Dopplegangbanger

Elisa Rowe Hannah Rose Webster May 13, 2021