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Founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMass Amherst, MR is one of the nation's leading literary magazines, distinctive in joining highest-level artistic concerns with pressing public issues. "It is amazing that so much significant writing on race and culture appears in one magazine" (The New York Times).
A 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays, and the visual arts (its original template was designed by artist Leonard Baskin) by both emerging talents and Pulitzer and Nobel prizewinners, special issues have covered women's rights, civil rights, and Caribbean, Canadian, and Latin American literatures.

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2010s
  1. 2018 (Vol. 59)
    1. No. 4 a special issue: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: RETHINKING THE CANON WINTER 2018 pp. 587-869
    2. No. 3 FALL 2018 pp. 390-575
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2018 pp. 192-381
    4. No. 1 SPRING 2018 pp. 1-182
  2. 2017 (Vol. 58)
    1. No. 4 WINTER 2017 pp. 585-788
    2. No. 3 FALL 2017 pp. 400-571
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2017 pp. 200-387
    4. No. 1 SPRING 2017 pp. 1-190
  3. 2016 (Vol. 57)
    1. No. 4 a special issue: THE MUSIC ISSUE WINTER 2016 pp. 582-816
    2. No. 3 FALL 2016 pp. 378-569
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2016 pp. 208-368
    4. No. 1 SPRING 2016 pp. 1-199
  4. 2015 (Vol. 56)
    1. No. 4 WINTER 2015 pp. 536-716
    2. No. 3 FALL 2015 pp. 350-524
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2015 pp. 176-339
    4. No. 1 SPRING 2015 pp. 1-165
  5. 2014 (Vol. 55)
    1. No. 4 a special issue: MEDITERRANEANS WINTER 2014 pp. 527-728
    2. No. 3 FALL 2014 pp. 342-515
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2014 pp. 168-334
    4. No. 1 a special issue celebrating 50 years of The Master of Fine Arts for Poets and Writers: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST SPRING 2014 pp. 1-160
  6. 2013 (Vol. 54)
    1. No. 4 WINTER 2013 pp. 568-772
    2. No. 3 W. E. B. Du Bois in His Time and Ours FALL 2013 pp. 361-560
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2013 pp. 168-350
    4. No. 1 SPRING 2013 pp. 1-159
  7. 2012 (Vol. 53)
    1. No. 4 WINTER 2012 pp. 551-724
    2. No. 3 FALL 2012 pp. 384-543
    3. No. 2 SUMMER 2012 pp. 200-376
    4. No. 1 SPRING 2012 pp. 1-192
  8. 2011 (Vol. 52)
    1. No. 2 SUMMER 2011 pp. 161-362
    2. No. 1 SPRING 2011 pp. 1-151
    3. No. 3/4 Casualty 2011 pp. 371-774
  9. 2010 (Vol. 51)
    1. No. 4 WINTER, 2010 pp. 625-799
    2. No. 3 AUTUMN, 2010 pp. 433-616
    3. No. 2 SUMMER, 2010 pp. 247-424
    4. No. 1 SPRING, 2010 pp. 1-240
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