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Earth Day Reading from VQR

April 22, 2014

The Sweet Spot in Time by Sylvia A. Earle: Why the ocean matters to everyone, everywhere The Accidental Beekeeper by Benjamin Rachlin, photography by Peter Frank Edwards: What is the origin of the honey at your local farmer's market [...]

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Leslie Jamison

An Interview with Leslie Jamison

By John Lingan

April 14, 2014

The first Leslie Jamison essay I remember reading is “Fog Count,” in the Oxford American. At the time, I was busy researching and interviewing lifelong residents in small-town Virginia, and Jamison’s depiction of the community surrounding a W [...]

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History’s Echo

By W. Ralph Eubanks

March 31, 2014

If spacious skies rising above amber waves of grain capture the romantic vision of an agrarian ideal, cotton fields serve as a reminder of the grittier, exploitative side of American agriculture. The sight of vast fields smattered with white bolls evokes nostalgia for many, but it’s undeniable that cotton’s investiture and reign as king was long and tortured, fostered by the twin evils of slavery and sharecropping.

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<i>Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books</i> by Wendy Lesser. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover, 240p.

The Criticism of Exhaustion

By Trevor Quirk

March 31, 2014

Two centuries ago it would have been reflex to name the dominant novelist or poet of your generation; eclectics might’ve named a few. Today that’s not so easy. Who are the children of postmodernism? The paragons of millennial literature? Dozens o [...]

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Chuck Wendig

Writer Dad: Chuck Wendig

By Guy Gonzalez

March 18, 2014

Editor’s note: Writer Dad is a series of interviews with professional writers who are also fathers, discussing how they balance the two, what the real challenges are, and how it affects both their writing and parenting. Read previous installments w [...]

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Making Sausages: Images of Governance

By Robert Birnbaum

March 14, 2014

During recent snowbound days, I indulged in a bout of binging the second season of House of Cards, the celebrated political drama starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, and a brilliantly cast supporting ensemble. Actually, I did the same binge with the [...]

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Matthew Power

Matthew Power (1974–2014)

March 11, 2014

We are heartbroken to report that Matthew Power, a VQR contributing editor, died yesterday in Uganda while on assignment for Men's Journal. His investigative reporting for us took him to countries that were foreign to most of our readers, but he foun [...]

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Howard Zinn. Photo by Robert Birnbaum

Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian

By Robert Birnbaum

February 21, 2014

Historian, activist, playwright, expert witness, and Red Sox fan Howard Zinn passed away on January 27, 2010, leaving a legacy of provocative scholarship and exemplary advocacy for social and economic justice, antimilitarism, and anti-imperialism. [...]

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