Winter 2008
Volume 84, Number 1
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — If It Amounts to Torture
VQR Portfolio
- J. Malcolm Garcia — All the Country Will Be Shaking
- David J. Morris — Trophy Town
- Nicholas Schmidle — Democracy is Not a Postcard
- Neil Shea and Andrea Bruce — Ramadi Nights
Essay
- Roberto Bolaño — The Corridor with No Apparent Exit
- Jane Hirshfield — Justice: Four Windows
- Floyd Skloot — When the Clock Stops
- Marcela Valdes — His Stupid Heart
VQR Symposium
- Daniel Alarcón — American Labasha
- Breyten Breytenbach — Looking for the Road
- Ted Genoways — I Make Myself Unimportant: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Ryszard Kapuściński
- Werner Herzog — What Was Worst
- Jerzy M. Nowak — Self-Immolation
- Lawrence Weschler and Salman Rushdie — The Emperor’s Deathbed: An Exchange
Web Exclusive
- Alan Brody — Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah
- J. Malcolm Garcia — That Is All Of Me
- Asim Rafiqui — Letters from a Jilted Lover
- Nicholas Schmidle — We Are Ready to Die
VQR Gallery
- Fernando Botero — Botero’s Abu Ghraib
- Daniel Heyman — Art Born of the Need to Tell
- Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #1
Fiction
- Drew Johnson — The Last Dead
- Alejandro Zambra and Carolina De Robertis — Bonsai
Poetry
- Oliver de la Paz — Nocturne with a Dictator
- Albert Goldbarth — The Poppy Fields of Afghanistan
- Garrett Hongo — Kubota Writes to José Arcadio Buendía
- Adam Kirsch — After the rabbi’s game repeating back and The Gothic silhouette and flying spire
- Patricia Lockwood — I. Or, the Anchorite Who is Dying By Degrees, II. Or, the Confessor Who Greens the Garden, and III. Or, the Illuminator Who Reads to Islanders
- William Logan — Dante’s Folly
- Elisabeth Murawski — Dirge
- D.A. Powell — continental divide
- Jacques Prévert and Norman Shapiro — Family Scene and The Sledgehammer Argument of General Massu
- Lisa Russ Spaar — Empty Nest
- Craig Morgan Teicher — The Prisoner, The First Fire, and Raised by Wolves
- Stefi Weisburd — José Sanchez’s First Week in the Cell
- George Witte — The Blister
Book Reviews
- Book Notes
- Philip Connors — Denis Johnson’s Higher Power
Humor
- Ross MacDonald — Dead-Eye Comic
