Dispatch

• J. Malcolm Garcia — Curfew: Afghanistan, 2002
• Chris Hondros — Inside Saddam’s Spider Hole
• Carleton J. Phillips — Capturing Saddam: Iraq, December 2003
  

Essay

• Brian Henry — New Scaffolding for New Arrangements: Charles Wright’s Low Riders
• Jane Jacobs — Credentialing vs. Educating
• Edward J. Larson — Wonderful Life: Debating Evolution in the Age of DNA
• Jahan Ramazani — Writing Life: Remaking a Norton Anthology
• Kathleen Spivack — Some Thoughts on Sylvia Plath

VQR Gallery

• Nick Bantock — Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Faux Mail, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera
• Michael Chabon — The Origin of the Escapist
• Deborah Parker — "The Moon Has No Home": Japanese Color Woodblock Prints

Fiction

• Michael Chabon — An Untold Tale of Kavalier & Clay: Breakfast in the Wreck
• E. L. Doctorow — Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden
• Stuart Dybek — A Steamer Trunk
• John McNally — The Immortals

Poetry

• Julianna Baggott — Lori Schappell, a Conjoined Twin, Addresses the Kmart Cashier Who Eyes Her with Too Much Sympathy and Dear Critic,
• David Barber — Wallenda Sutra and Falcon Channel
• Robert Bly — A Week on the Oregon Coast and The Horses Coming Up Behind
• Rafael Campo — Pantoum for Our Imagined Breakup and Addressed to Her
• Debora Greger — Scholar in a Narrow Street
• William Kloefkorn — Early July and August
• William Logan — Untitled in Four Parts and Couplets
• Patrick Phillips — Twelve Views of My Father and Blue Ridge Bestiary
• Greg Rappleye — The Salt Cairn
• David Roderick — Thanksgiving and Plot
• Barry Sternlieb — Concubine and Calligraphy
• Natasha Trethewey — Incident
• Charles Wright — The Minor Art of Self-Defense, A Field Guide to the Birds of the Upper Yaak, and Wrong Notes
• C. Dale Young — Torn
• Adam Zagajewski — Postcards from Genoa

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  New & Noteworthy
  
• David Hamilton — Or Fail to Smile: Three Recent Books by William Kloefkorn
• Jeffrey Meyers — Terminator: The Legacy of Ted Hughes
• Cary R. Nelson — Boomlay, Boomlay, Boomlay, BLOOM
• Sanford Pinsker — Hating America, at Home and Abroad