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As recently as 2005, Camp Bondsteel was purported to be a secret interrogation site for the American military. So why does predominantly Muslim Kosovo love it so much?

VQR contributor Elliott Woods brought along a video camera for a day-long patrol in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

Releasing an e-book as a stand alone application is a lousy new trend. It's bad for authors, it's bad for publishers, and it's bad for customers.

We're up for their General Excellence and International Coverage awards.

VQR has been nominated in both the Fiction and Photojournalism categories.

She's written a book based on her Fall 2008 article about how the gender imbalance in China threatens the country’s future.

It's now clear that it's not true that Goldman Sachs executives arming themselves against an uprising. But neither the news outlet nor author Alice Schroeder are talking.

Alice Schroeder’s claim is being repeated by major media outlets around the world. But it seems awfully unlikely.

The journalist/artist is producing an original, 48-page comic for us, entitled "The Unwanted," about the thousands of African refugees who have washed up in Malta.

His long, full life included a Guggenheim fellowship, service in WWII, and a brief stint in the Peace Corps at the age of 76.

In 1982, David Wyatt analyzed where the Star Wars franchise was headed. We asked him to consider how his forecast turned out.

The bombs were falling when two VQR reporters made it through the Rafah Crossing and into the Gaza Strip. What they saw shocked them.

The topic has come up in our pages regularly over the years.

We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.

"Why not write an excerpt for the home page?" the web editor suggested.

Palestinian territories as an island nation, Shell goes on trial for Nigerian atrocities, poets weathering the recession, and more.

Robert Irwin explains his work, Chris Ware tries his hand at animation, the secret to happiness is cracked, and editing of DFW is less egregious than thought.

We've won the General Excellence category of the Independent Press Awards for our 2008 issues.

Ted Genoways talks to Dimiter about "The Mask of Sanity: On the Trail of a Serial Killer in Macedonia," in the current issue.

Utne reprints VQR, Time marks our founding, and readers turn a recent blog entry into poems.

This National Magazine Award-nominated VQR contributor appeared on the popular show a few days ago.

The pollster appears to have completely invented the facts behind his sensationalist op-ed, claiming that there are as many professional bloggers as attorneys in the U.S.

The ten most common titles of submissions that we’ve received in the past two years.

Micropayments, raising subscription rates, poets reading online, and more.

Ted Genoways Carolyn Kormann, Matthew Fishbane, William Finnegan, Lawrence Weschler, Ted Conover will talk about our new issue on April 16.

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Our latest issue features reporting from around the globe about how climate change is affecting the coldest parts of the world.

An intrepid reporter goes deer hunting and talks poetry with this VQR contributor.

Sony one-ups Amazon, Clay Shirky talks crazy, Robert Irwin gets recognized, and Gawker finds time to dis VQR.

The unsustainability of organic farming, modern-day slavery among tomato pickers, the invention of the cocktail, two new books of poetry, and more.

A new installment in the VQR Poetry Series, Oxford American gets a bailout, and more.

Let it be known among teenaged writers across the land.

Print on demand becomes viable, reviews of cookbooks, an obscenely bad book, and more.

We just flipped the switch and made public every single poem, story, essay, and book review that appeared in VQR from 1975 through 2003—the whole of Staige Blackford's tenure as editor.

Rediscovered articles from our archives, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and more.

Neale Donald Walsch victimized by his own brain, Joshua Casteel on his opposition to the war, Macmillen facetiously explains how books are published, and video of Whitman reading his work.

Mark Doty, Billy Collins, and Robert Pinsky get excited about a Thomas Hardy poem, plus CAPTCHA poetry, classifying profanity, and more.

The National Review and VQR have employed the same concept, but sent two very different messages.

The year's best mistakes, Lawerence Weschler's mysterious power, the merits of literary prizes, and more.

With a new logo and layout, we're slimming down the magazine without dropping a word.

Obama's AG nominee is catching flack from the left for his ties to the banana exporter and their support of Colombian terrorists.

Taking a haircut, misery memoirs, Fitzwilliam Darcy on Facebook and National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month.

Scans of his original submissions to VQR, including "The Gift Outright," "Acquainted with the Night," and nine more.

Literary magazines ranked by their Pushcart Prizes winnings.

He talks to Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism about how he wrote "Ramadi Nights," in our Winter 2008 issue.

We talk to him about his experiences writing about PTSD in Iraq/Afghanistan veterans.

Lawrence Weschler on his role in the decades-old disagreement between two giants of art.

It's for his novel "Lost City Radio," originally excerpted in VQR's pages.

WVTF talks to the author of "A Few Unforeseen Things."

Interviews with those left behind after the MOB Marez suicide bombing.

Wired is chronicling their entire idea-to-print publishing process via blog.

There's a $1,000 cash prize for the winner of our September competition.

Errol Morris looks at the intent behind altering photographs.

Two guys tussle over Whitman, Wikipedia defeats an agent, and more.

Our new issue is all about outsiders and outcasts, groups trying to define and reclaim their homeland.

A 1968 article foretells the world of "2000 A.D."

Some scans from an old issue of VQR.

David Cushman Coyle's 1947 review of a proto-Pollan critique of the American diet.

Thomas E. Kennedy tells his story.

Our articles now have embedded bibliographic metadata.

New works by a pair of VQR contributors.

A ten-minute conversation with a VQR contributor about his discovery of unpublished work by Pound.

We forecast this crisis in our Fall 2007 issue, and explained its roots in our Spring 1944 issue.

We won t he Single-Topic Issue category for our Fall 2007 issue about South America

Our slush pile readers at their most frank.

The Bikini Atoll tests rendered in oil paints and watercolors.

Michael Bishop writes about the death of his son, Jamie.

If you have an insatiable need to keep up with the latest news from VQR World Headquarters, you'll love this.

We're reprinting Leonard Rapport's 1936 story to mark the occasion of his death.

In which we interview ourselves about our new issue.

We all say things wrong on purpose.

A recording of four VQR contributors' recent reading.

A recording of the Charleses' recent reading.

It's tough for the greatest man alive to make friends.

Our latest issue is in the wild.

A review of coverage by us and others, as well as a new article for the occasion.

On the occasion of Clarke's death, we reprint his 1960 article about supersonic flight.

The ten most popular titles for work submitted to us.

The families of five men killed by Colombian rebels are suing the company for materially aiding rebels.

Though, really, it only takes one.

A physics student has devised an equation to produce VQR.

Our authors know us better than we do.

One of our contributors has a gallery showing in NYC.

More photos have emerged.

A podcast of our editor's recent lecture about VQR.

Loosely synapsed moments aren't going to defend themselves.

It's tough to boil your life down into two sentences.

People sure get hit here a lot.

Suppose they gave a contest and nobody (decent) came.

Bookslut interviews a VQR contributing editor.

Five percent of the submissions we receive are totally off the mark.

The social networking site for lit geeks is getting famous.

Neal Conan talks to the author of "Trophy Town" about the recent improvements in Ramadi.

They like us, they really like us!

Boiling down 3,956 articles into 74 words.

Now that we've moved from print to electronic submissions, they're coming from all over.

It's good to be hated, at least by this guy.

We respond to submissions fast. Too fast.

Every article is now available.

Our Spring 2007 article will help you understand what's going on.

The goal of a universal digital library isn't hindered by its fragmentation.

In which we graph the number we receive each day.

Should really lousy submissions even be counted?

We're doing something pretty neat that we've never done before.

Our editor on a local radio show.