Fall 2004
Volume 80, Number 4
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — Reporting the Report
VQR Portfolio
- JOSEPH MARGULIES — A Prison Beyond the Law
- JENNY S. MARTINEZ — José Padilla and the War on Rights
- CHRISTOPHER MERRILL — A Kind of Solution
- SARAH P. RUBINSTEIN — Report from Ground Zero
- Salman Rushdie — The Ministry of False Alarms
- Art Spiegelman — The Sky Is Falling, the Sky Is Falling!
Dispatch
- PETER BRIDGES — Corsica, with a Collie
Essay
- David Caplan — “In That Thicket of Bitter Roots”: The Ghazal in America
- John Casteen — Ditching the Rubric on Gun Control: Notes from an American Moderate
- Jeffrey Meyers — T. E. Lawrence and the Character of the Arabs
- DAVID MOATS — Fear Itself: Meditations on Gay Marriage
- Sanford Pinsker — Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow of Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
- Francine Prose — Writing Life: The Universal in the Particular
VQR Gallery
- TYKO KIHLSTEDT — Photographs of Ground Zero
- MASAMI TERAOKA — Modern Inferno: Post-9/11 Paintings
Fiction
- MADISON SMARTT BELL — Dead Letter
- James P. Othmer — The Futurist
- ANNIE PROULX — The Contest
Poetry
- JOHN BREHM — Walking Underground
- Robert Olen Butler — Five Beheadings
- Geri Doran — Lives of the Gods, Lives of the Saints
- Albert Goldbarth — Stated Focus, The English Rat, and The Song of How We Believe
- GARY HAWKINS — Holding onto Firmaments and Homebuilding
- SARAH KENNEDY — From The Farm Accounts of Mrs. C. Jones
- Wyatt Prunty — Last Century
- Paisley Rekdal — Pastoral and The Gokstadt Ship
- GEORGE SCARBROUGH — From the Han-Shan Sequence
- Alan Shapiro — Super Bowl Party
- THOMAS R. SMITH — In the Assisted Living Cafeteria
- C. Dale Young — Quiet City
Book Reviews
- Book Notes
- DEREK ATTRIDGE — A Writer's Life: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello
- Jack R. Fischel — Face-to-Face with Terror: Jessica Stern's Terror in the Name of God
- ELIZABETH KIEM — Putting the War on Terror on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Blind Trust
Humor
- Ross MacDonald — George's Barber Shoppe



