Project MUSE - The Massachusetts Review-Volume 66, Number 1, Spring 2025

Introduction

Britt Rusert

pp. 8-9

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“What’s Past Is Prologue”

Jim Hicks

pp. 10-15

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The Regime of Truth, and: Shameproof

Carolann Caviglia Madden

pp. 16-18

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Elegy at an Imminent End

Mark Spero

pp. 19-20

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Wool Gathering

John Sibley Williams

p. 21

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Artemisia Tridentata

Anna Leahy

p. 22

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Dream A Highway Back

Arro Mandell

pp. 23-32

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Grandpa’s Detroit #2 (The 1968 Riot)

Raphael Jenkins

p. 33

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You Know You Can’t Help It, Who You Are

Sejal Shah

pp. 34-47

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Maga Hat, V

Sandra Meek

p. 48

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Can America’s Democracy Be Saved?

Elizabeth Knapp

p. 49

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A Supreme Court Opinion 24 June 2022, and: The Amount of Death and Pain in the City Was Extraordinary

M. Cynthia Cheung

pp. 50-51

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What We Weren’t Expecting

Anne Schuchman

pp. 52-56

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27, and: 32

Rana Al-Tonsi, Translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel

pp. 57-58

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Goodbyes, and: When God Listens to Another Failed Revolution

Maryam Haidari, Translated from Arabic by the author and Salar Abdoh

pp. 59-60

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Four Glimmers of Ambedkar’s “Fraternity.”: That is, a fellowship yet to come.

S. Shreyas

pp. 61-66

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Poison Rivers

Shastri Akella

pp. 67-86

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It Is Best to Avoid the Beginnings of Evil, and: It Is, After All, Always the First Person That Is Speaking

Matt Donovan, Jenny George

pp. 87-89

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The Capital of Spring

J. S. Westbrook

p. 90

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The Limitations of Science (Seven Tenets of Occult)

Jake Phillips

pp. 91-93

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From Kwatrijnen

Jacob Israël De Haan, Translated from Dutch by Jake Goldwasser

pp. 94-95

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Self-Portrait as Schrödinger’s Cat

Maria Martin

p. 96

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Recent Work

Michael Alvarez

pp. 97-108

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Dog Moms

Robbie Herbst

pp. 109-122

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Matters of National Fate, and: Joe Biden Puts on the Edgar Suit, Which is the Poem

Péter Závada, Translated from Hungarian by the author Kris Herbert

pp. 123-125

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Bertram Bracht Emerges from the Flood

Ariel Dorfman

pp. 126-167

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Spring Roll

Wilson Abby Comey

pp. 168-176

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Hoarder

Meghana Mysore

pp. 177-187

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Toys in a Field

Daniel Moysaenko

pp. 188-189

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Give Me The Gun

Andrew Zhou

pp. 190-204

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Notes on Contributors

pp. 205-208

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