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