{"title":"Lights and Sirens","authors":"Rachel Stone","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a900415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a900415","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this story, a student leaves college after the death of her close friend and spends her time volunteering as an EMT. She reflects on how genuine the relationship was while she and her coworkers assist 911 callers.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"64 1","pages":"122 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49028736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peripheral Sex","authors":"Anna Ballbona, Lawrence Venuti","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a900412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a900412","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this excerpt, a woman reflects on her sexual encounters with men, most of which took place in a car parked in a field that belonged to her grandfather.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"64 1","pages":"115 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49442007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1518: Spring Encounter","authors":"A. Shastri","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a900397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a900397","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A hybrid piece of prose interspersed with blank pages, which details the feud between rival poets Pishtaq and Muqarnas in the spring of 1518. The town mayor serves as match officiant, settling on a \"3:3\" format: three exchanges of three-line poems, where the first line of each poem was \"set\" by the officiant. Pishtaq's poems were met with applause, whereas Muqarnas' were received less favorably. The exact winner of this match is to this day unknown.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"64 1","pages":"18 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41928665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I, Too, Took Pictures of My Body","authors":"Keetje Kuipers","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a900411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a900411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"64 1","pages":"114 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47094861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Introduction to Exile","authors":"Oz Johnson","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a900401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a900401","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The essay details Johnson's efforts to grapple with her identity as a Filipina Jew and what it means to exist in a seemingly permanent state of exile. The author argues that the sense of exile cannot be fixed by simply relocating, as exile is not a product of spatial distance so much as it is the result of spiritual brokenness.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"64 1","pages":"44 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46812748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Uncaptured Life, Lived to the Brim\": On the Unpublished Autobiography of Svetlana Boym","authors":"Anthony David","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a900410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a900410","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An essay about Anthony David's process of writing Svetlana Boym's biography. David begins to understand Boym through the exploration of her unfinished autobiography, complete and fragmented written works, and her death.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"64 1","pages":"113 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43661984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}