Carol Shields was the author of eight novels, including the bestselling Unless, and three collections of short stories. She received the Orange Prize for Larry’s Party and the Pulitzer Prize for The Stone Diaries. She died on July 16, 2003, after a protracted battle with cancer. In February, Fourth Estate will publish her Collected Stories, including her last story, "Segue," published here for the first time in the United States. The story appears here accompanied by a short introduction by Shields’s close friend Margaret Atwood.
On New Year's Eve, a small-scale protest never gets off the ground—thanks to police intervention.
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 features a new series of audio portraits of Marines in Helmand Province's Sangin District.
A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?
Louie Palu describes his twelve years of photographing the mines and mining towns of the Canadian Shield
How an '80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.
The rise and fall of the USSR can be read in the pages of the VQR archive.
Our Russian writer and the photographer Maisie Crow rejoin the crowd of more than one hundred thousand in Moscow.
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