Features
Essays on arts and culture from around Michigan and around the world
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
“Talking Back”: Teaching Feminist Writing with bell hooks
On Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage”
Bonds of Our Devising
“No Shadow But Myself”: Remembering W.S. Merwin
When The Dragon Flies Out, The Real Doors Are Opened
On Philip Levine’s “To Cipriano, in the Wind”
Why the Wee-Bots Write: Stories from Young Writers
Reckoning with Familial Origins: Kelly Fordon on Why She Writes
Great Stuff, Cheers: Flannery O’Connor and I Read Marcel Proust
On the Creation of Other Worlds: A Response to “Against Leaving Him” by Christine Rhein
Listen Along: a Story of Divorce as Told by the Mountain Goats
In Tanzania
