Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — The Dreadful Details: The Problem of Depicting War

VQR Portfolio

• Carolyn Cole — Someone Won't Be Coming Home Tonight
• Ashley Gilbertson — Last Photographs
• Chris Hondros — A Window on Baghdad

Dispatch

• Peter Kuper — Oaxaca Sketchbook

Essay

• Burke Butler — A Brief History of His Time
• John Casteen — Shoot the Messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry
• Michael Collier — A Final Antidote: The Journals of Louise Bogan
• Edward Hirsch — Growing into the Psalms: The Poetry of Jirí Orten
• Adam Kirsch — To Hold in a Single Thought Reality and Justice: Yeats, Pound, Auden, and the Modernist Ideal
• Matthew Power — One More Martyr in a Dirty War: The Life and Death of Brad Will

Fiction

• Beena Kamlani — Zanzibar
• Brendan Mathews — Dunn & Sons
• John McNally — I See Johnny
• Mario Vargas Llosa — The Chilean Girls

Poetry

• Peter Balakian — World Trade Center / Mail Runner / ’71, World Trade Center / Mail Runner / ’73, and World Trade Center / Black Holes / ’74
• Marianne Boruch — Ladder against a House and Elevator
• Robin Ekiss — Mozart’s Mother’s Bones
• Steve Gehrke — Homecoming: Fourth of July
• Daniel Groves — So Long
• Jirí Orten — What Is Prohibited, Black Picture, Snowflakes, What Are We?, and Screaming
• Alberto Rios — The Rain That Falls Here
• Charles Wright — Cowboy Up, Hasta la Vista Buckaroo, Kingsport Harmony, With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, The Gospel According to Yours Truly, Stiletto, “I Shall Be Released”, Little Prayer, Next, Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey, On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking about Tennessee, and No Angel

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  
• Jennifer Chang — The Music of Failure: On Meghan O'Rourke's Halflife
• Eleanor Henderson — From Pittsburgh to Sitka: On Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
• William Logan — Back to the Future: On Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day

Humor

• Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic