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Winter 2014

Winter 2014

Volume 90, Number 1

  • The art and life of Gabriel Orozco, by Julia Cooke
  • Poetry as a cultural force, by Natasha Tretheway
  • A voice for women in India, by Meera Subramanian
  • A troubling holiday tradition in the Netherlands, by Emily Raboteau
  • Fiction by Steven Amsterdam, Chris Offutt, Lara Vapnyar and Paula Whyman
  • Poetry by Peter Balakian, Stephen Burt, Katie Ford, Nathaniel Perry, Hayden Saunier, and Wendy Videlock
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Orozco throwing boomerangs at his Pennsylvania farm, 2013. (Oskar Landi)

Circling Back

By Julia Cooke

Winter 2014

Artist Gabriel Orozco doesn’t necessarily want to disappoint, nor does he want to fail, not in a literal sense. Rather, he wants to protect his right to be a beginner.

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Author Profiles

Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey, a VQR contributing editor, served two terms as the nineteenth Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014).

Will Boast

Will Boast is the author of the novel Daphne (Norton/Liveright, 2018), a best-selling memoir, Epilogue (Norton/Liveright, 2014), and a story collection, Power Ballads (Iowa, 2011), which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Julia Cooke

A VQR Contributing Editor, Julia Cooke’s essays and reporting have appeared in A Public Space, Salon, Tin House, Smithsonian, The Best American Travel Writing 2014, and elsewhere.