Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — The Price of Aggression

VQR Portfolio

• Laura Browder and Sascha Pflaeging — When Janey Comes Marching Home
• Joshua Casteel — Combat Multipliers
• Ashley Gilbertson — The Life and Lonely Death of Noah Pierce
• Elliott D. Woods — A Few Unforeseen Things

Dispatch

• Mara Hvistendahl and Ariana Lindquist — Half the Sky: How China’s Gender Imbalance Threatens Its Future

Essay

• Blake Bailey — No Memory for Pain: John Cheever Begins
• J. Hoberman — The Long Road of Lonesome Rhodes

Web Exclusive

• Brian Turner and Patrick Hicks — A Conversation with Brian Turner

VQR Gallery

• Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #3
• Lawrence Weschler — David Hockney: A Return to Painting

Fiction

• Charles Antin — The Iraq Show
• Peter Walpole — Representing Doris

Poetry

• Todd Boss — Ruin, Advance, In the Morning We Found, and The Plat Book
• Traci Brimhall — The Summer after They Crashed and Drowned
• Claudia Emerson — The Polio Vaccine, Chatham, Virginia, 1964, Spring Ice Storm, and The Medical Venus
• Albert Goldbarth — The Lions in His Menagerie
• Honor Jones — Equinox
• David Keeling — Egrets
• Ted Kooser — Dead Fly
• Maxine Scates — What Do We Know and When Do We Know It?
• Brian Turner — Unearthed by Wind, Perimeter Watch, VA Hospital Confessional, On the Flight to Alamosa, Colorado, The Discotheque, Leaves That the Wind Drives Earthward, Ajal, and A Poem for the Last American Soldier to Die in Iraq
• Robert Wrigley — None Shall Sleep and Responsibility

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  
• Sydney Blair — Notes from an Uncommon Reader
• Oscar Villalon — America’s Game, America’s Obsession: The National Football League—Then and Now

Humor

• Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic