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Decades of Fire: A Virtual Reading

To celebrate the launch of MQR 61:2, “Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa,” we asked six contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the MQR Spring 2022 issue here to read more from these and other contributors.

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To celebrate the launch of MQR 61:2, “Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa,” we asked six contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the MQR Spring 2022 issue here to read more from these and other contributors.

MQR 61:1 (Winter 2022): A Virtual Reading

To celebrate the launch of MQR 61:1, we asked seven contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the MQR Winter 2022 issue here to read more from these and other authors.

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To celebrate the launch of MQR 61:1, we asked seven contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the MQR Winter 2022 issue here to read more from these and other authors.

Why We Write: A Virtual Reading

To celebrate the launch of our special issue, “Why We Write,” we asked six contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the Fall 2021 issue here to read more from these and other authors.

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To celebrate the launch of our special issue, “Why We Write,” we asked six contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the Fall 2021 issue here to read more from these and other authors.

MQR fall 2021 cover

Holding Many Truths: An Interview with Marlin M. Jenkins

“I want my work to hold the many truths—the intersections and complications—all at once, and I want my process and how I move through the world to be aware of them, too. I want to steer toward awareness of those multitudes.”

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“I want my work to hold the many truths—the intersections and complications—all at once, and I want my process and how I move through the world to be aware of them, too. I want to steer toward awareness of those multitudes.”

On the Sounds and Silence of Writing: An Interview with Peter Markus

So maybe writing is a way to create the illusion that time can be stopped, or at least be fixed to a moment on the page, which may be useful in terms of trying to make sense or see things clearer even.

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So maybe writing is a way to create the illusion that time can be stopped, or at least be fixed to a moment on the page, which may be useful in terms of trying to make sense or see things clearer even.

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