ANN ARBOR—The summer issue of the University of Michigan’s Michigan Quarterly Review, the second of a special spring/summer issue, is now available. Theme of this two-part Michigan Quarterly Review is “Secret Spaces of Childhood,” and explores the changing world of childhood.

“It’s difficult—but so important—to know what happens when children play on their own,” said U-M lecturer Elizabeth Goodenough, issue editor and expert on children’s issues. “Writers help open that world up.”

According to Goodenough, childhood itself is changing as the physical landscape changes and play is pulled more and more towards technology. “Children are spending less time creating their own physical spaces. It’s hard to process what that does to childhood,” said Goodenough, who teaches in the U-M School of Education.

The summer edition of Michigan Quarterly Review features a literary forum where 30 prominent writers—including Joyce Carol Oates, E.O. Wilson, Jim Harrisonand Lore Segal—discuss their own childhood secret spaces. The issue also examines children’s literature, including “the psychology of picture books—an absolutely new area,” according to Goodenough.

Michigan Quarterly Review is published quarterly; yearly subscriptions can be purchased for $18. Single copies are available for $5; however, the spring and summer issues will cost $8 per issue, $16 for both issues.

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