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the ogre of gratitude dangling like a chandelier from the rearview mirror asks if
you know how lucky you are, if you’ve meditated on that yet, if your heart

My therapist says a boy with a secret
is easy to control. I wonder how
Steve learned mine, if I told him

This issue continues a run of powerful photodocumentary work for VQR, beginning with Michael O. Snyder’s narrative portrait of drag-queen culture in a northern Appalachian town in the 2023 Spring/Summer double issue, followed in the Fall by...

in exchange for a public chance at a longer private life, you give them
not your body, but your body’s one error in calculation. the swerve,

Many parents know firsthand how cannabis can transform the lives of children with severe illness. Why won’t the legal system listen to them?

In a western Ukrainian town, a homeless community that served people for decades has taken on new meaning during the war.

I want my students to fall madly in love with Rosalind. She’s my favorite of all Shakespeare’s heroines, I tell them, pressing my hand to my heart, pretending to swoon.

Finding Refuge in Your Favorite Monsters

How doctors across the country—fed up, burned-out, and disillusioned—are trying to reclaim the soul of medicine.