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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 ArticleA Life in Three Acts: Havana Pipe Dreams
by Shanti Pillai It was a March evening in Havana and still hot at 6 pm. I was on my way to my apartment in the central neighborhood of Vedado on a street called Zapata. This area is a stone´s throw...
View ArticleA Life in Three Acts: Tourism and Transcendence in Cuba’s Escambray
by Shanti Pillai I entered my Havana apartment and was pleasantly surprised to find that the Cuban boyfriend had already turned one of the four available channels to the Jimmy Carter press conference....
View ArticleA Life in Three Acts: Lakshmi Is on the Line
by Shanti Pillai There is a lot to talk about when I call my father in India from Cuba. The calls are expensive, but the connection is crystalline. Nonetheless, it is hard to stay focused when my...
View ArticleAMERICAN SHIPS
* fiction by Brenda Peynado from MQR 54:3 (Summer 2015) * When the American ships arrived, they looked like giant white women swimming towards us on the horizon. American marines shouted orders from...
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