Book Reviews
MQR staff and contributors provide insight into recent publications in the literary arts and humanities.
“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
Seven Ages’ Madness
10 Novels to Understand Rural America
Border Wisdom: Ahmad Almallah at the edge of land, loss and language
“Light cannot escape its pull”: A. Van Jordan’s When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again
Writing the Rest: Luiz Schwarcz’s Absent Moon
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“Who is Without Echo?”: The Future Reader of Fady Joudah’s […]
Learning “how / to make a house of our ruin”: A Review of Caroline Harper New’s A History of Half-Birds
Beyond the Page: Decolonial Reading in How To Read Now
Conversion’s Balance: On Jennifer Grotz’s Still Falling
Language Plays God: A review of Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise by Jennifer Metsker
On Perspective: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone, the Barbie movie, & Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
In with the Old: Boris Dralyuk’s My Hollywood and Other Poems
Where the Music Plays: On “Tori Amos Bootleg Webring” by Megan Milks and Locating Queer and Trans Identity in Online Fandom’s Archives
