Fall 2009
Volume 85, Number 4
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — Are We Losing the War on Drugs?
VQR Portfolio
- Robert Anasi and John Ryan Brubaker — Game Over
- Simon Apter — The Mule
- Charles Bowden — The Crazy Place
- Jordan deBree — Manny’s Story
- J. Malcolm Garcia and Darren McCollester — Call of the Narcocorrido
Dispatch
- Lygia Navarro and Jason Florio — Inheritance of Dust
- Paul Reyes — Opportunity Knocks
Essay
- Luke S. H. Wright — The Death of the American Dream
Web Exclusive
- Jason Motlagh — Sixty Hours of Terror
VQR Gallery
- Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #6
Fiction
- Leslie Parry — The Vanishing American
- Maggie Shipstead — The Cowboy Tango
Poetry
- Bruce Bond — Water Clock
- CJ Evans — Ghost Poem
- Thorpe Moeckel — Cold Range, Hot Range
- Susan B. A. Somers-Willett and Brenda Ann Kenneally — Women of Troy
- Natasha Trethewey and Joshua Cogan — Congregation
Book Reviews
- Book Notes
- Giles Harvey — This Gravity-Ridden World
- Michael David Lukas — Dispatches from the Mother of the World
- Jacob Silverman — “I Have Decided Not to Die”



