Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — Günter Grass and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Dispatch

• Norman Ng — Tears in Timor: Pages from a Photographer’s Notebook

Essay

• Rick Barot — Rilke’s Blue Flower
• E. L. Doctorow — Our Edgar
• David Kirby — An Army Of Chitterlings
• Alan Shapiro — My Tears See More Than My Eyes: My Son’s Depression and the Power of Art
• Lawrence Weschler — A Berlin Epiphany

VQR Symposium

• Robert Frost — War Thoughts at Home
• Ted Genoways — A Symposium on a Lost Poem by Robert Frost
• Glyn Maxwell — Dead on a Side Track: On Frost’s "War Thoughts at Home"
• Robert Stilling — Between Friends: Rediscovering the War Thoughts of Robert Frost

VQR Gallery

• Gregory Orr — Turnings and Returnings: The Art of Jake Berthot
• Art Spiegelman — Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (Installment #3)

Play

• Tony Kushner — But the Giraffe!

Fiction

• Dean Bakopoulos — Cougar & Zeke
• Michael Chabon — The King in Black
• Dan Chaon — Shepherdess

Poetry

• Bruce Bond — Ash
• Victoria Chang — Ode to Iris Chang
• Anthony Deaton — The Imperative
• Karin Gottshall — Virginity
• Matthew Ladd — Appalachian Diurnal
• Timothy Liu — Summer in Paris
• Campbell McGrath — Then and The Future
• Thorpe Moeckel — Spittoono Lily
• Debra Nystrom — My Mother Wanted It All to Be Beautiful
• W. T. Pfefferle — Bad History
• Kevin Prufer — A Boy like Your Mother and Surgical Theatre
• Jody Rambo — Mercurialism
• Daniel Tobin — The Jetty
• Daneen Wardrop — Scene Gaining Ground on Itself

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  
• Dave Lucas — I Am Not What I Am: The Poetry of Mark Strand
• George Scialabba — A Martial Epic for Our Own Time

Humor

• Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic