Winter 2007
Volume 83, Number 1
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — The Quandary of Oil in Africa
VQR Portfolio
- J. Malcolm Garcia — African Promise: Chad, August-September 2006
- John Ghazvinian — The Curse of Oil
- Chris Hondros — The Fire: The Price of Oil in Africa
- Nicholas Shaxson — What Caring Neighbors Do
Dispatch
- David J. Morris and Reynaldo Leal — The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground
Essay
- David Caplan — Ethical Suffering: On the Work of Alan Shapiro
- Pauline W. Chen — Morbidity and Mortality: A Surgeon Under Exam
- J. Hoberman — Laugh, Cry, Believe: Spielbergization and Its Discontents
- Walter Mosley — Gray Shawl
- David Rieff — Remembering Susan Sontag
VQR Symposium
- David Baker — "I'm Nobody": Lyric Poetry and the Problem of People
- Linda Gregorson — Life Among Others
- Stanley Plumley — A Place for People in Lyric Poetry
- Ann Townsend — A Mind for Metaphors
VQR Gallery
- Harry Berger, Jr. — Supposing Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
- Charles Burns — One Eye
- David Opdyke and Lawrence Weschler — Miniature Monuments: The Sculptures of David Opdyke
- Art Spiegelman — Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (Installment #4)
Fiction
- Daniel Alarcón — A Circus at the Center of the World
- Peter Nadas — A Tale of Fire and Knowledge
Poetry
- Allen Braden — Detail of the Four Chambers to the Horse’s Heart
- Debra Bruce — Late Winter Lesson
- Gary Fincke — The Possibilities for Wings
- Mirian Levine — In the Magnifying Glass
- George Looney — A Kind of Restoration
- Glyn Maxwell — January
- Paisley Rekdal — The Lecturer Discusses Edward Curtis’s Vash Gon and Edward Curtis’s Lewis and Clark’s Landing Place at Nihhluidih
- Alan Shapiro — Country Western Singer, Poet, Dentist, and Family Man
- C. Dale Young — Sepsis and Deus ex machina
Book Reviews
- Book Notes
- Jack R. Fischel — The Crimes of My Enemy
- George Scialabba — How Was It Possible?
Humor
- Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic


