Features

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

The Torrential Blood

Daniel Weaver May 18, 2022

We Are All In Terrible Danger: Reflections Six Weeks into Russia’s Assault on Ukraine

Daniel Weaver April 8, 2022

Poison In The Air

Daniel Weaver April 6, 2022

Rodin’s L’Adieu

Daniel Weaver March 24, 2022

The Iron Grasshopper: A Childhood Autobiography

Daniel Weaver March 23, 2022

Two Guests at the Camp: The Story of An Involuntary Journey

Daniel Weaver March 18, 2022

Pigeon-holing, Tastemaking, False Categories or: Sally Rooney and the Aesthetics of Alienation

Daniel Weaver February 10, 2022

The Laying of Hands: Tom Sleigh’s The King’s Touch

Daniel Weaver January 26, 2022

“Talking Back”: Teaching Feminist Writing with bell hooks

Daniel Weaver December 28, 2021

On Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage”

Daniel Weaver December 20, 2021

Interviews

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

An Interview with Joe Sacksteder 

Aaron Jon Stone September 24, 2022

I Have Been Born Three Times: An Interview With Adonis, Part Two

Daniel Weaver June 29, 2022

I Have Been Born Three Times: An Interview with Adonis

Daniel Weaver June 25, 2022

Archival & Elegiac Mourning: An Interview with Rick Barot 

Daniel Weaver June 21, 2022

An Interview with the Author of Pickard County Atlas, Chris Harding Thornton

Daniel Weaver June 8, 2022

Like a Divination: A conversation with Laynie Browne

Daniel Weaver June 2, 2022

74 Years of Nakba: Palestinian Poets Noor Hindi, Mosab Abu Toha & Sara Abou Rashed in Conversation 

Daniel Weaver May 16, 2022

Octopuses Have Been Trying to Research Humanity: An Interview with Brenda Shaughnessy

Daniel Weaver May 3, 2022

Writing between Two Worlds: An Interview with Kerri ní Dochartaigh author of Thin Places 

Daniel Weaver April 20, 2022

What is Enough for a Poem? An Interview with Ada Limón

Daniel Weaver April 14, 2022

Book Reviews

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

Hunger and Home: A Review of Dur e Aziz Amna’s American Fever

Daniel Weaver July 15, 2022

Prayers and Incantations

Daniel Weaver July 11, 2022

A Poetics of Incompletion: Baudelaire’s Late Fragments

Daniel Weaver June 29, 2022

Diagnosis and Knowing: Sarah Fay’s Pathological

Daniel Weaver April 26, 2022

If a Poem Is a Border We Can Cross

Daniel Weaver March 21, 2022

The Laying of Hands: Tom Sleigh’s The King’s Touch

Daniel Weaver January 26, 2022

What We Learn From Losses: A Review of Fighting Is Like a Wife by Eloisa Amezcua

Daniel Weaver December 15, 2021

Candor and Critique: On Greg Gerke’s See What I See

Daniel Weaver November 1, 2021

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

Daniel Weaver October 22, 2021

Process and Product: CAConrad’s AMANDA PARADISE

Daniel Weaver October 18, 2021