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Michigan Quarterly Review

0576 Rackham Bldg.

915 E. Washington St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070

Phone: (734) 764-9265

E-mail: mqr <at> umich <dot> edu

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-6 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 0026-2420 Founded: 1962 Issues per year: 4 Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $4 for back issue Cover Price: $7; $9 special issue Subscription: $25

Publisher’s Description: Michigan Quarterly Review attempts to combine the best qualities of a literary journal with the intellectual rigor of an academic or scholarly journal. Investigative and speculative essays mingle with imaginative writing from the likes of Philip Levine, (the late) Arthur Miller, and Joyce Carol Oates—our contributing editors—and new writers whose reputations lie before them. Recent special issues include "China," "The Documentary Imagination," "Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame," and the "Secret Spaces of Childhood."

Writing from MQR is regularly reprinted in prize anthologies and textbooks. Recent topics include Orson Welles's correspondence on Macbeth and The Magnificent Ambersons, August Wilson, Holocaust poetry, Martin Luther King and "My Country Tis of Thee," cinephilia, 9/11, art vandalism, Samuel Beckett, dictionaries, good and bad medicine. We publish poetry and fiction that engage in such topics as well as the perennial subjects of self, family, sexuality. The editor insists on "answerable style"—that is, language that is equal in gravity, complexity, clarity, and wit to the subjects it explores.

Recent issues:

In Volume 48 Number 4, Fall 2009 - Bookishness: The New Fate of Reading in the Digital Age - “We … live at a double moment: the death of the book and the dearth of reading face off against a proliferation of virtual books, the overabundance of writing.… Everything seems up for grabs in ways both threatening and promising; it’s either a brave new world or Brave New World.…” A special issue with essays, fiction, poetry, and more exploring books, reading, language, and the life of words in the world today.

In Volume 48 Number 3, Summer 2009, five scholars respond to the election in “Obama and the Challenge of the Real.” Ellen Bryant Voigt talks about irony, Heather Frese about fatigue, Deborah Eisenberg about fiction, and Nicholas Delbanco about the art of old age. Also fiction, poetry, and a review of the latest work by Nobel laureate JMG LeClézio.

In Volume 48 Number 2, Spring 2009, Catherine L. Benamou, the author of a recent book on [Orson] Welles, curates a generous selection of correspondence related to Welles's film of 1948, Macbeth, as well as a graphics portfolio featuring images of great rarity related to that film and a document that serves as a "smoking gun" in the great mystery about the fate of the original print of The Magnificent Ambersons.