Features
Essays on arts and culture from around the world
Loving
American Dreams / Wake Up Call
The Torrential Blood
We Are All In Terrible Danger: Reflections Six Weeks into Russia’s Assault on Ukraine
Poison In The Air
Rodin’s L’Adieu
The Iron Grasshopper: A Childhood Autobiography
Two Guests at the Camp: The Story of An Involuntary Journey
Pigeon-holing, Tastemaking, False Categories or: Sally Rooney and the Aesthetics of Alienation
The Laying of Hands: Tom Sleigh’s The King’s Touch
Interviews
MQR staff and contributors engage in conversations with writers and thinkers across disciplines.
Balance and Disquietude: An Interview with Wendy S. Walters
An Interview with Katie Kitamura
Joyce Carol Oates Looks Back on Her Wide-Ranging Work Through the Years
An Interview with Courtney Faye Taylor
Looking Is a Sacred Act: A Conversation with Sati Mookherjee
Survival as a Creative Act: An Interview with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
An Interview with Raquel Gutiérrez
“In Times of Social Upheaval, The Poet and the Reader Begin to Speak the Same Language”: An Interview with Maria Malinovskaya (2020-2022)
An Interview with Joe Sacksteder
I Have Been Born Three Times: An Interview With Adonis, Part Two
Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
A Loud Grief: A Review of Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe
A Reconciliation with the External World: Timothy Donnelly’s Chariot
I Assemble, I Am: A Review of Roberto Tejada’s Why The Assembly Disbanded
A Review of H.R. Webster’s What Follows
A Review of Sarah Heady’s Comfort
“An Enormous Enigmatic Signifier”: Salah el Moncef’s Benghazi
Hong Kong and the Hope of Cosmopolitanism: Reading Xu Xi’s Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations
A Review of Arji Manuelpillai’s Improvised Explosive Device
Hunger and Home: A Review of Dur e Aziz Amna’s American Fever
Prayers and Incantations
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