Spring 2004 Issue
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Dispatch
- J. Malcolm Garcia — Curfew: Afghanistan, 2002
- Chris Hondros — Inside Saddam's Spider Hole
- Carleton J. Phillips — Capturing Saddam: Iraq, December 2003
Essay
- BRIAN HENRY — New Scaffolding for New Arrangements: Charles Wright's Low Riders
- Jane Jacobs — Credentialing vs. Educating
- Edward J. Larson — Wonderful Life: Debating Evolution in the Age of DNA
- Jahan Ramazani — Writing Life: Remaking a Norton Anthology
- Kathleen Spivack — Some Thoughts on Sylvia Plath
VQR Gallery
- Nick Bantock — Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Faux Mail, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera
- Michael Chabon — The Origin of the Escapist
- Deborah Parker — "The Moon Has No Home": Japanese Color Woodblock Prints
Fiction
- Michael Chabon — An Untold Tale of Kavalier & Clay: Breakfast in the Wreck
- E. L. Doctorow — Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden
- Stuart Dybek — A Steamer Trunk
- John McNally — The Immortals
Poetry
- Julianna Baggott — Lori Schappell, a Conjoined Twin, Addresses the Kmart Cashier Who Eyes Her with Too Much Sympathy and Dear Critic,
- David Barber — Wallenda Sutra and Falcon Channel
- ROBERT BLY — A Week on the Oregon Coast and The Horses Coming Up Behind
- Rafael Campo — Pantoum for Our Imagined Breakup and Addressed to Her
- Debora Greger — Scholar in a Narrow Street
- WILLIAM KLOEFKORN — Early July and August
- William Logan — Untitled in Four Parts and Couplets
- Patrick Phillips — Twelve Views of My Father and Blue Ridge Bestiary
- Greg Rappleye — The Salt Cairn
- David Roderick — Thanksgiving and Plot
- Barry Sternlieb — Concubine and Calligraphy
- Natasha Trethewey — Incident
- Charles Wright — The Minor Art of Self-Defense, A Field Guide to the Birds of the Upper Yaak, and Wrong Notes
- C. Dale Young — Torn
- Adam Zagajewski — Postcards from Genoa
Recent Books
- David Hamilton — Or Fail to Smile: Three Recent Books by William Kloefkorn
- JEFFREY MEYERS — Terminator: The Legacy of Ted Hughes
- Cary R. Nelson — Boomlay, Boomlay, Boomlay, BLOOM
- Sanford Pinsker — Hating America, at Home and Abroad
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