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Don’t Leave, Cecilia

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The day the water arrived, Luis was working in the cellar, the dogs were tied up to the trees, and Cecilia and I were digging holes the size of thumbs. We were poking the earth with screwdrivers and dropping in handfuls of seeds. To pass the time, Cecilia was […]

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The day the water arrived, Luis was working in the cellar, the dogs were tied up to the trees, and Cecilia and I were digging holes the size of thumbs. We were poking the earth with screwdrivers and dropping in handfuls of seeds. To pass the time, Cecilia was

Harm Reduction

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of MQR’s 2024 Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader and former MQR Social Media Coordinator Lauren Champlin on why she recommended “Harm Reduction” by Thea Chacamaty for the Summer 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. “Harm Reduction” is a story that captivated me

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of MQR’s 2024 Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader and former MQR Social Media Coordinator Lauren Champlin on why she recommended “Harm Reduction” by Thea Chacamaty for the Summer 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. “Harm Reduction” is a story that captivated me

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A Loud Grief: A Review of Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe

“Death in general elicits questions, the most invasive of which is how?” writes Onyi Nwabineli in Someday, Maybe. Eve Ezenwa-Morrow, the novel’s protagonist, has lost her husband, Quentin Morrow, to suicide. After his death on an undated New Year’s Eve, she is so pinioned by the resulting grief that a new persona emerges: an “Eve

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“Death in general elicits questions, the most invasive of which is how?” writes Onyi Nwabineli in Someday, Maybe. Eve Ezenwa-Morrow, the novel’s protagonist, has lost her husband, Quentin Morrow, to suicide. After his death on an undated New Year’s Eve, she is so pinioned by the resulting grief that a new persona emerges: an “Eve

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An Interview with Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura mines the painful tension between intimacy and performance, and their beguiling slippages into each other. Kitamura’s prose—taut, yet full of surprise—is keenly attentive to the intricacies of power and language across circumstances as varied as the turbulent decolonization of an unnamed country, the agonizing days before a professional fight in Mexico, and the

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Katie Kitamura mines the painful tension between intimacy and performance, and their beguiling slippages into each other. Kitamura’s prose—taut, yet full of surprise—is keenly attentive to the intricacies of power and language across circumstances as varied as the turbulent decolonization of an unnamed country, the agonizing days before a professional fight in Mexico, and the

On the Anniversary of Becoming a Resident Alien

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 There are many ways to resolve Come to think of it A wound refusing to scatter  A method to escape capture  Elusion was the gift her father’s silence imparted Departure a precipice buried in the body  Crenellature of sinew visible from space  And imparting, made resonant  Above, decayed embattlements

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 There are many ways to resolve Come to think of it A wound refusing to scatter  A method to escape capture  Elusion was the gift her father’s silence imparted Departure a precipice buried in the body  Crenellature of sinew visible from space  And imparting, made resonant  Above, decayed embattlements

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