Editor's Desk

• Ted Genoways and Dimiter Kenarov — Back in the USSR

Essay

• Amy Knox Brown and Mary Anne Andrei — What is Gone
• Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira — The Lovely Sea
• Steve Featherstone and Maisie Crow — Dirty Secrets
• Dimiter Kenarov and Jason Motlagh — A Threat to Public Order
• Morgan Meis — A Monument to Forgetting
• Jason Motlagh — Dark Days in Belarus
• Ed Ou — Under a Nuclear Cloud
• Brian Turner — My Life as a Foreign Country
• Maria P. Vassileva and Maisie Crow — The Resurrection
• Elliott D. Woods — All That Remains

VQR Symposium

• Shamshad Abdulaev — Voices
• Eugenius Alishanka — curriculum vitae and the rats
• Andriy Bondar — the men of my country
• Hasso Krull — [All people are pregnant, said Diotima,]
• Valzhyna Mort — Grandmother
• Vera Pavlova — Three Poems
• Maya Sarishvili — [In the room, the roots of things have decayed], [There was only this joy—], and [Before sleep, I remove]
• Serhij Zhadan — Stones (excerpts)

Fiction

• Alan Heathcock — The Born Agains
• Kseniya Melnik — Closed Fracture
• Maggie Shipstead — La Moretta

Poetry

• Patrick Phillips — Vesper Sparrow