Spring 2008
This issue contains writings about the territory of China–its people, its ways of thinking, its arts and media, its politics and social conditions. It also examines the presence of China in the...
View ArticleSpecial Issues
Select back issues of The Michigan Quarterly Review still available for purchase. Topics cover the automobile and American culture, perestroika and Soviet culture, contemporary American fiction, the...
View ArticleAs Beautiful as the Chance Encounter of a Coffee Mug and a Coaster on a...
by Joshua Edwards Headlines cycling. War, officially-forgotten diseases, hot-shot bailouts, shameless status updating, neglected continents, orchestral indie pop grandeur, absurd year-end best-of...
View ArticleTo Every Dish, There is a Season
by Monique Daviau Plates and bowls are meant to be simple conveyances for food, but now eating at home would possess the burden of memory: each grown-up, lonely dinner of spaghetti with jarred sauce...
View ArticleA Traditional Thanksgiving
I see how tradition can curdle; how tradition can camouflage and domesticate violence, excuse ineptitude, and encourage ignorance. I see, around me, people questioning tradition, plumbing its darkness,...
View ArticleClimbing Lion Rock: An Interview with Wawa and Henry Wei Leung
"This intense, absurd tragedy, I realize now, is my invisible foundation. The myth of Pei Pei is born here—an image that picks up the devastation between Nietzsche and the world and between me and Hong...
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