Criticism

Bookslut clearly isn't a fan of the crop of cover art this past year. Heather Smith manages to get past her distaste and find six that rank at the top. They are nice covers, but, speaking only for myself, "Mountain Man Dance Moves" is fairly ungood l [...]

Julien Green, who was born of American parents in Paris in 1900 and wrote prolifically in French, kept a journal for over sixty years. One recurring subject of this extraordinary record of a writer's interior life is the reading of Scripture. Green w [...]

Deborah Eisenberg—UVA professor, Rea Award winner, and contributor to the winter issue of VQR—receives staggeringly good reviews for her new story collection, Twilight of the Superheroes, in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Village Voic [...]