Recent Blog Entries

What’s in a (Middle) Name?

Michael David Lukas

Consider the difference between James Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper; David Wallace and David Foster Wallace; or Jorge Luis Borges and Jorge Borges. Who would want to go down in history as Jorge Borges?

A Strange and Extraordinary Week

Jacob Silverman

The deaths of Auchinchloss, Zinn, and Salinger; Borders begins to crumble; Apple gets into the books business.

The Cocaine Coast

Waldo Jaquith

South American cocaine is ferried to Europe through West Africa. Along the way, FARC, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda all get a cut.

7 Questions for Robert Cohen

Aja Gabel

The VQR contributor talks about his essay about the return of the Axum obelisk to Ethiopia from Italy, featured in the current issue of the magazine.

Literary Sex

Aja Gabel

Endorsing Portnoy’s penis as a guide post for literary sex is like saying guys these days should act more like Don Draper.

Indispensable Googability

Mandy Redig

How in the world did people get information in the days before Google?

Hvistendahl’s Chinese Population Article to Become a Book

Waldo Jaquith

She's written a book based on her Fall 2008 article about how the gender imbalance in China threatens the country’s future.

Mother Jones: The Death of Fiction?

The Editors

Is $50 too much to save the future of literary fiction?

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