About David Hamilton

David Hamilton, the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (Missouri, 2001), has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and edits the Iowa Review.

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On New Year's Eve, a small-scale protest never gets off the ground—thanks to police intervention.

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The Maine lobster industry has a reputation as one of the best managed fisheries in the world—but few have considered how this ethic is enforced.

Assignment Afghanistan: Third Squad

Elliott D. Woods

Assignment Afghanistan features a new series of audio portraits of Marines in Helmand Province's Sangin District.

Nadia Shira Cohen

A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?

Louie Palu

Louie Palu describes his twelve years of photographing the mines and mining towns of the Canadian Shield

Dimiter Kenarov

How an '80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.

Ted Genoways

The rise and fall of the USSR can be read in the pages of the VQR archive.

Aglaya Glebova

Our Russian writer and the photographer Maisie Crow rejoin the crowd of more than one hundred thousand in Moscow.

Or Fail to Smile: Three Recent Books by William Kloefkorn

David Hamilton

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Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer. Nebraska, September 2003. $22
This Death by Drowning. Nebraska, September 1997. $15
Sergeant Patrick Gass, Chief Carpenter: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark. Spoon River Poetry, July 2002. $12

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