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Amir Ahmadi Arian (L) Niloufar Talebi (R) Head Shots

Bus Drivers and Fire Walkers: A Conversation between Niloufar Talebi and Amir Ahmadi Arian

We live in a world where millions of people grow up in one language and live and work in another, yet the stories of migrations across languages are rarely told.

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We live in a world where millions of people grow up in one language and live and work in another, yet the stories of migrations across languages are rarely told.

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Dispatches: New York & Iran

MQR is bringing you dispatches from contributors and friends of the journal around the world, sharing the particularities of how the COVID-19 virus has impacted their communities (both literary and geographical). Thank you to our contributors for their willingness to share their thoughts with us. Your Day and Your Life are One and the Same

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MQR is bringing you dispatches from contributors and friends of the journal around the world, sharing the particularities of how the COVID-19 virus has impacted their communities (both literary and geographical). Thank you to our contributors for their willingness to share their thoughts with us. Your Day and Your Life are One and the Same

Transformative Language: A Review of Lean Against this Late Hour by Garous Abdolmalekianby

In this volume, the personal is always at war with the political, and boundaries – both geographical and personal— are often blurred, bombarded, beset.

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In this volume, the personal is always at war with the political, and boundaries – both geographical and personal— are often blurred, bombarded, beset.

Second Slice of Darkness

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Fiction Reader Elinam Agbo introduces Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s story “Second Slice of Darkness,” from our Spring 2019 Issue: Iran.  So often, we want stories to immediately declare their secrets. We are as impatient in reading as we are in listening. In “Second Slice of Darkness,” Mehri awaits her

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Fiction Reader Elinam Agbo introduces Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s story “Second Slice of Darkness,” from our Spring 2019 Issue: Iran.  So often, we want stories to immediately declare their secrets. We are as impatient in reading as we are in listening. In “Second Slice of Darkness,” Mehri awaits her

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