Are you ready to go back to school?Are you ready to follow the rules?Fall semester draws near—Why not reach for a beerTo ease into your schedule? Stay cool! Whether teacher or parent or student-of-age, don’t you’d think ‘twould be prudentTo stock beer in your fridgeThat can serve as a bridgeAs your summer . . .
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Here’s what past contributors to MR have published in the month of August! Stay tuned at the end of each month for more updates. Jehanne Dubrow’s book of lyric meditations on taste, Taste: A Book of Small Bites, is out now with Columbia University Press. With essays that blends personal experience with analysis of . . .
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“i thought i saw your face, your unmistakablegait on the 6 train—i’m wrong.blessings refused maybeor imagined.”—from “on Survivor’s Guilt, ending with ‘Ruff Ryders’ Anthem’ by DMX,” Volume 63, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.All I can remember is that I was 8 or 9 . . .
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At Interlink Publishing, my staff and I were shocked, devastated, and heartbroken to hear about the attack on Salman Rushdie and his interviewer on August 12th. Rushdie, a fellow member of PEN and past president of PEN America, has always been a fierce advocate for freedom of expression as we know all . . .
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“Denon’s mew position will turn out to be eminently strategic. When he writes to Isabelle that everyone was pleased with his appointment, he is being ironic. On the other hand, what he is quite right about is that it’s going to keep him busy constantly. An exhausting job.”—from “The Masked Baron’s Louvre” . . .
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“It was the summer of loss spanning the exact distancemy disease could reach—the degrees of longitudeand latitude, lonely numbers like decorationsfor a forgotten graduation party in a church basement.”—from “Diary Entry #5: Self-Portrait as Revelations Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.One of the first poems I ever wrote . . .
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Summer Intern Aviva Palencia interviews translator Aga Gabor da Silva, winner of our annual Chametzky Translation Prize for her translation of Ewa Lipska’s “Can Always Happen” from its original Polish. Published in our Spring 2021 issue, Gabor da Silva’s masterfully translates this poem about longing for one’s country of origin. A transcript . . .
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Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial—bylined by its editorial board—condemning the “woke” direction of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)’s new recommendations for medical schools. “Read and wince at how woke politics is about to infect medical education,” they fret, before detailing how the AAMC now suggests . . .
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Evelina looked for peace and quiet. To find it, she woke up before everybody else: before her father who had to get to the fields an at early hour, before her mother and grandmother who had chores to do, before her older siblings who went to school, and before the younger ones . . .
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“‘C’mon, ladies. It’s not fun for me either,’ Marina called. ‘Bend over and touch your toes.’ The wet nurses complied, their rumps rising up in a line of mottled curved. The lights weighed on them, all nude except for cotton underwear.”—from, “The Milkmaid,” Volume 63, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) Tell us about . . .
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