Lost in the Amazon
James P. Othmer
About James P. Othmer
James P. Othmer’s short story, “The Futurist,” was published in the Fall 2004 issue of VQR and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction. The story also formed the basis for his debut novel The Futurist, (Doubleday, 2006), named as one of the ten best novels of 2006 by Amazon.com. His website is http://www.jamespothmer.com/.
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The Moscow Protests, Part 3
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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
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The Lovely Sea
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A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?
The Golden Triangle
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Louie Palu describes his twelve years of photographing the mines and mining towns of the Canadian Shield
The End of the Séance
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How an '80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.
The Soviet Era: A Look Back
Ted Genoways
The rise and fall of the USSR can be read in the pages of the VQR archive.
The Moscow Protests, Part 2
Aglaya Glebova
Our Russian writer and the photographer Maisie Crow rejoin the crowd of more than one hundred thousand in Moscow.
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