Fall 2012

Volume 88, Number 4

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Editor's Desk

Marie Arana — The Female Conscience

Dispatch

Chuck Leavell — Forty Acres and a Year: Spring Into Summer

Essay

Manal al-Sharif — Driving My Own Destiny
Marie Arana and Gina Nemirofsky — Dreaming of El Dorado
Stephen Burt — My Life as a Girl
Sylvia A. Earle — The Sweet Spot in Time
Jean Bethke Elshtain — Is There Such a Thing as the Female Conscience?
Roxane Gay — Bad Feminist
Deirdre Gogarty and Darrelyn Saloom — My Fight
Reeve Lindbergh — Of Flight and Life
Judith Warner — Is Too Much Mothering Bad for You?

Articles

Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira — River Women of Brazil
Naomi Natale — Cradle to the Grave
VQR Staff and Libbie Allen — The Halo Project

Fiction

Joyce Carol Oates — A Book of Martyrs
Marian Palaia — Củ Chi
Maggie Shipstead — Labor

Poetry

Sandra Beasley — "What Is the Wholesale Price of The Traveler's Vade Mecum?", "The Offer Will Not Be Repeated", “Cotton Is Rising”, and “I Shall Not Walk, But Ride”
Victoria Chang — [The boss would like to see us not in person but would like to see us], [We are high performers not normal not just performers but high ones we], and Edward Hopper’s New York Office
Katharine Coles — Sailing to Antarctica, Tattoo, The Human Mind Did Not Create the Ice, Terra Lab, and Rumors of Topography
Camille Dungy — One to Watch, And One to Pray
Mary Emma Koles — Kate Moss,
Lisa Russ Spaar — Old Rose and Christmas Stoup

Book Reviews

Mindy Aloff — The Kerouac Voice
Robin Marantz Henig — How to Write Science
Jonathan Yardley — By the Wind Grieved