Week of 12/21/15 | VQR

A national journal of literature & discussion

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Vestiges of the Socialist Time

By Julia Cooke

REPORTING / Fall 2015

What the Kurds Want

By Jenna Krajeski

Erich Hartmann/ Magnum Photos

FICTION / Summer 2013

The Debt

By Ann Beattie

The arrival of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) and Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) in a Frisian village in the Netherlands on November 24, 2012. (Patrick Post / Hollandse Hoogte)

ESSAYS / Winter 2014

Who Is Zwarte Piet?

By Emily Raboteau