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About Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner’s numerous distinctions include a Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards for his two-part, seven-hour Broadway production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The 2003 HBO adaptation won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Made for Television, and Kushner received an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. His other acclaimed plays include Slavs, Homebody/Kabul and Caroline, or Change.

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Recent Blog Entries

Orpheus’s Error

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“Think like the dead” should be the unofficial motto of the Iraq War. To blend in, American soldiers are feigning death.

The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb

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A Vietnamese American Army Captain's view of the war in Iraq.

VQR Events This Week

Kevin Morrissey

Join us for a slate of upcoming events featuring VQR contributors, past and present.

City of Trash

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After the elections, Baghdad is awash in political posters.

The Hurt Locker 2

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Kenarov visits the school for training Iraq’s own Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams.

We’re Nominated for Two National Magazine Awards

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VQR has been nominated in both the Fiction and Photojournalism categories.

Baghdad: Election Day

Dimiter Kenarov

Dimiter Kenarov reports on the violent and historic day of a parliamentary elections in Iraq.

Inside the Citadel

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Dimiter Kenarov sweet-talks his way into the most heavily-guarded building in Iraq.

A Prayer for New York

Tony Kushner

Only subscribers may read this in its entirety. What follows is a free preview, truncated midway through.

(A lawyer with a letter, standing, and his mother sitting nearby.)

ELMER (reading from a letter:)

From the Law Offices of

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