Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, announced today the appointment of Paul Reyes as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Reyes, who joined VQR in 2012 and has served as...
curbside on an Arp-like table. He’s alone of course, in the arts district as it were, legs folded, swaying a foot so that his body seems to summon some deep immensity from all that surrounds:
Disgrace is a public phenomenon, defined by public measures—of perception, opinion, consensus. To suffer disgrace is to arouse a collective sense of betrayal, bounds demolished, moral or social compacts violated. Reprieve from disgrace is...
A library, of course, makes for a stubborn protagonist in a work of narrative journalism. “The reality is, it’s just different writing about something that has all of the complexity of bureaucracy. I don’t do a lot of stories where I have...
What realms of gold did they travel, these old field glasses? Her last pair, focused beyond the tame sea-stacks of glass and bottle, they’d have caught–– from her Boston Harbor condo–– birds in maneuvers, breaches of whales.
