A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?
One Afghan Refugee’s Quest to Recover the Past.
VQR is featuring selected work from our archives in honor of Veteran’s Day. Brian Turner’s “My Life as a Foreign Country,” from the Fall 2011 issue, is also the title essay of his new memoir, out now from Norton.
How one disaster at Katyn helped us move past another
Just outside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, a generation of children has grown up wondering about the future.
How My Love of Belarusian Tractors Got Me Arrested by the KGB
