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