Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful: Why Darwin Is Still Right

VQR Portfolio

• Thomas Eisner — Scales: On the Wings of Butterflies and Moths
• Niles Eldredge — Confessions of a Darwinist
• David Quammen — Mr. Darwin’s Abominable Volume
• Michael Ruse — Flawed Intelligence, Flawed Design
• Robert M. Sapolsky — The Olfactory Lives of Primates
• Lawrence Weschler — A Final Thought on Intelligent Design—and a Modest Proposal

Dispatch

• J. Malcolm Garcia — Descent into Haiti

Essay

• Casey Clabough — George Garrett’s South
• Marilyn Hacker — The Mimesis of Thought: On Adrienne Rich’s Poetry
• Jeet Heer — Little Nemo in Comicsland
• Mark Nowak — Notes toward an Anti-Capitalist Poetics
• Adrienne Rich — Permeable Membrane
• Hugh Seidman — Will, Change, and Power in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
• Roberto Tejada — As in Tendrils a Transparency
• Jean Valentine — A Change of World: A Friendship
• Craig Werner — Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s "Usonian Journals 2000"

VQR Gallery

• Marjane Satrapi — Chicken with Plums, Part 1

Fiction

• Kevin A. González — Wake
• Francine Prose — An Open Letter to Doctor X
• Stephen Schottenfeld — Artie Gottlieb, Consulting Philosopher

Poetry

• David Barber — Zoopraxiscope Sutra
• Stephen Cushman — Beside the Point
• Erica Dawson — God Girl
• Gary Fincke — Selflessness
• Brendan Galvin — The Labrador Summer
• Daniel Groves — Way Back
• Jane Hirshfield — A Moment Travels the Visible Fraction at Dusk and Is Gone
• Amaud Jamaul Johnson — Big City
• Davis McCombs — Thirty September and Nesta
• Paul Otremba — Rest Stop
• Patrick Phillips — Nathaniel
• Joshua Poteat — Illustrating how to catch and manufacture ghosts, Illustrating the theory of ebb and flow, and Illustrating the machine that makes the world
• Wyatt Prunty — Lincoln’s Tunnel
• Adrienne Rich — Voyage to Dénouement,, Archaic, Skeleton Key, Rereading The Dead Lecturer, Plain Sight, Behind the Motel, and Unknown Quantity
• Susan B. A. Somers-Willett — Darwin Strikes a Match, First Sex, and My Natural History
• Lisa Williams — Woman Reading to the Sea

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  
• Jack R. Fischel — The War in Iraq

Humor

• Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic