Essays

Four months ago, I was hopeful about it. How does the 2010 edition fare?

One writer’s take on the annual writing conference.

A brief look at Sherwood Anderson’s contributions to VQR, featuring his original manuscripts and VQR’s correspondence with him.

The website devoted to “correspondence deserving of a wider audience” is fascinating.

To this new era, barely ushered in by men like Bergson, Whitehead, S. Alexander, Andre Gide, Franz Kafka, etc., Freud does not belong. But in the perspective of cultural history, he will be seen as a contemporary of Darwin, Schopenhauer...

How are American historians, social scientists, and novelists to cope with the vastness and complexity of American democracy? Are they more bold than wise in attempting what European writers have rarely ventured—a composite picture of a...

Dissolution is not a new theme for Edwin An lington Robinson, for it was in “Merlin” that he told of a noble civilization falling back into violence and barbarism. It was the war that made Robinson feel so. In his latest and last book,...