...Alexis Tyla Roberts [email protected] © 2022 Alexis Tyla Roberts 2022 Alexis Tyla Roberts at the day party, Lauryn Hill s Ex-Factor plays i don t remember the first time hearing it, but i do remember the first time shouting/ screeching/ believing no one loves you more than me...

...Dennis McFadden © 2011 Dennis McFadden 2011 Dennis McFadden Helga’s Last Days George was watching his old dog, Helga, pick her way across the backyard when his nephew Oscar came into view off through the trees, sunlight glinting on his oily hair, a bloody bag over his shoul- der...

...Mark Jenkins 2005 the minnesota review 2005 the minnesota review Mark Jenkins It's On Days Like These When I Stare At The Chainsaws I want to pull the display chainsaw off the shelf to cut myself in two. Each half will cover two...

...Adam Day © 2016 Adam Day 2016 Adam Day From an Interview with Kenzaburo Oe, with Stage Directions from Synge’s Riders to the Sea During the Battle of Okinawa       the Japanese    army (spinning the wheel rapidly): order the people (speaking very...

...Amy Day Wilkerson 2005 the minnesota review 2005 11 Amy Day Wilkerson Hunter's Crossing The neighborhood, Hunter's Crossing, is just a half-circle of twelve houses that used to be identical except color...

... detail how the deep fidelity practiced by the central couple in the film — most powerfully on display in its unexpected climax — develops a concrete figure of the day-by-day labors, the unending process of remaking, renewal, and reinvention required in any authentic marriage and hence any truly utopian...

...Janell Watson Kaja Silverman's body of work spans the disciplines of English, film studies, semiotics, psychoanalytic criticism, feminist theory, masculinity studies, and art history. In this interview, Silverman discusses her career as an interdisciplinarian, beginning with the days when...

...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

...Margret Grebowicz; Margret Grebowicz What Sir John Hunt described beautifully as “the problem of Everest” is a different problem now than it was for the 1953 expedition. These days Everest is anything but the great unknown, so commercialized that it has become symbolic of a world used up by humans...

...Miller Oberman © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 29 Miller Oberman Dixie Paint 1. Day We pull into a duplex in a Black neighborhood in our Dixie Paint van, confederate flags blazing...

...Mariem Khaled [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Mariem Khaled 2024 Saadeya was pregnant. It was a blistering hot day; the sun hung over their heads, and even the horses looked like they were a minute away from collapsing from the heat. But Saadeya didn't care, she...

... her purple camo pajamas with pictures of dog tags all over them. I think anything military is an inappropriate gift for a toddler —​ especially one who took a swing at me the other day and needs, maybe, to be discouraged away from violence —​so I junk it. We married on Halloween. Also...

... fine,” the father says. He sighs loudly and picks her up under her armpits. From over his shoulder, she wipes at her eyes with the back of her mitten as he carries her out the door. “I hope you find your cat,” she says. I have been in Kansas for six days. Today, Lorna did not return home...

... wisdom for ten days straight, since the morning of his thirty-fifth birthday. That morning he awoke to find that Patrick had gone to work, had taken the car, and had left him with nothing more than a birthday note in which he promised at once to be back soon and to stay gone forever. Since...

...Mike Coakley © 2013 Mike Coakley 2013 Mike Coakley Beekeeping When I came downstairs the first morning of summer break after seventh grade, my father was pouring gooey pancake batter into a skillet. He called them flapjacks. “It’s your first day of freedom,” he said, smiling when...

...Helene Achanzar © 2021 Helene Achanzar 2021 Helene Achanzar O my sorrow, I don a new dress Clicking the checkout icon for what I really want: good skin for a good future, expensive denim, and a reason to get off the couch. Every day devoid of motivation to put a face on, but this Tuesday...

.... The date was July 21, 2021, and the water walk had started three days before and it was only going to last for another seven days. I was visiting friends at Ho-Chunk lands in Madison, Wisconsin, and I had already considered heading to some of the camps that were protesting the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands oil...

.... Me and Frankie looky look at each other and go, YEAH, HECKY HECK YEAH! and super speed we head-dive into them cardboards. Reason they be here? Cause they remains, furniture box remains for our new housey house, way out here in the middle of somewhere, here on farmy farm. All day we construction...