Mennonite Quarterly Review

April, 2023

Fourteen Reflections After 32 Years
Hildi Froese Tiessen

Plain Poetry for Plain People
Ervin Beck

Reading Toews Reading Camus: Existentialist Echoes
in Miriam Toews’s “Secular Mennonite” Ethics and Aesthetics
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon

Rudy Wiebe and Those Mennonite Readers, 1984:
Laughing Matters
Paul Tiessen

“Near the Stacks of the East Village Public Library”:
On Intertextuality as Mennonite Literary History
Robert Zacharias

Authority, Storytelling, and Community:
Keynote speech, Mennonite/s Writing Conference IX
Casey Plett

News and Announcements

Book Reviews

Brandt, Di. The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected Poems.
Reviewed by Jeff Gundy

Enns, Sarah. Flyway
Reviewed by Alyssa Sherlock

Gundy, Jeff. Wind Farms: Landscape with Stories and Towers.
Reviewed by Luke Beck Kreider

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. As Is.
Reviewed by Ann Hostetler

Klassen, Sarah. The Russian Daughter: A Novel.
Reviewed by Hildi Froese Tiessen

Nickel, Barbara. Essential Tremor: Poems.
Reviewed by Connie T. Braun

Samatar, Sofia. The White Mosque: A Memoir.
Reviewed by Ervin Beck

Toews, Miriam. Fight Night.
Reviewed by Daniel Shank Cruz

Yoder, Rachel. Nightbitch.
Reviewed by Jessica Baldanzi

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