Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — The Land of Broken Promises

VQR Portfolio

• Tom Bissell — Looking for Judas
• Peter Lagerquist — Tracing Concrete
• Christopher Merrill — Relative Calm
• Michelle Orange — Beirut Rising
• Asim Rafiqui — Portraits of Survival
• Elliott D. Woods — Hope’s Coffin

Dispatch

• David Enders — Behind the Wall: Inside Baghdad’s Sadr City
• Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra — The Young Mothers of Port-au-Prince

Essay

• Adam Kirsch — Lionel Trilling and Allen Ginsberg: Liberal Father, Radical Son

Web Exclusive

• David Caplan — Masters of Return
• J. Malcolm Garcia — We Are Not Just Refugees
• Joel Turnipseed — An Interview with Aaron Glantz

VQR Gallery

• Chris Ware — Jordan W. Lint, Installment #5

Fiction

• Jacob Appel — Scouting for the Reaper
• Etgar Keret and Miriam Schlesinger — Brecious
• Natalya Klyuchareva and Mariya Gusev — One Year in Paradise

Poetry

• Dan Beachy-Quick — The Pharmakos and Walking Through the Room
• Sara Burge — God of Chocolate, God of War
• David Caplan — White Stone
• Michael Collier — The Bees of Deir Kifa
• Mahmoud Darwish and Fady Joudah — I Love Autumn and the Shadow of Meaning and I Used to Love Winter
• Yael Globerman and Karen Alkalay-Gut — Lover
• Myronn Hardy — Linens Near a Ghost Town
• James Hoch — Lilies
• Timothy Liu — The Windows
• Dave Lucas — Lives of the Saints
• Carl Phillips — Of the Rippling Surface, Master and Slave, and My Bluest Shirt
• Tom Sleigh — Border Crossings and Refugee
• Ronny Someck — Cesar Vallejo or 12 Lines on The Bread of Shame
• Lisa Williams — Bees in a Time of War

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  
• John McNally — A Stark World
• Joel Turnipseed — What We Owe Our Soldiers
• Emily Colette Wilkinson — Intimate Objects