Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways — Ghosts of the Cold War

VQR Portfolio

• Lygia Navarro and Jason Florio — Tropical Depression
• Paul Reyes — Patria y Muerte: Resurrecting My Father’s Cuba
• Neil Shea — The Revolution Is

Dispatch

• Matthew Fishbane — The Bones of Mendihuaca
• Dimiter Kenarov — Pop-Art Radovan
• Alex Ayala Ugarte and Sven Creutzmann — Che Sat Here: The Making (and Marketing) of a Martyr

Essay

• J. Hoberman — Behold the Man: Steven Soderbergh’s Epic Film Biography of Che
• David J. Morris — Empires of the Mind: SERE, Guantánamo, and the Legacies of Torture
• Sylvia Sellers-Garcia — The Criminal Record
• Pauls Toutonghi — 9 Sencu Iela

VQR Symposium

• The Dice Player: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Mahmoud Darwish
  
• Mahmoud Darwish — Funeral, The Words, and The Dice Player
• Marilyn Hacker — A Braid of Garlic
• Fady Joudah — His Own Elegy
• Amro Naddy — The Eternal Traveler
• Michael Wiegers — His Indomitable Self

VQR Gallery

• Peter Kuper — Ceci N'est Pas Une Comic
• Robert Schultz and Binh Danh — Faces Fleshed in Green

Fiction

• Carolina De Robertis — The Askers
• Laleh Khadivi — Air and Water
• Vinnie Wilhelm — Fauntleroy’s Ghost

Poetry

• Michael Collier — An Individual History
• Dave Lucas — All Souls Night
• Pablo Neruda and William O'Daly — Epoch and The Ashes
• Ricardo Pau-Llosa — Cuba, Where Art Thou?
• R.A. Villanueva — In Memory of Xiong Huang

Book Reviews

• Book Notes
  
• Stephen Boykewich — Devilish Forces
• Lisa Russ Spaar — God-Hunger Redux
• Emily Colette Wilkinson — A Murder Most Mysterious

VQR Vault

• Amro Naddy — Nadine Gordimer’s First Publication in VQR
• Eleanor Roosevelt — Keepers of Democracy