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As publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review, it’s my pleasure to announce the appointment of Jane Friedman as Web Editor. Friedman, the former publisher and editorial director of Writer’s Digest, will join our staff in June to develop...

At the latest government-sanctioned rally, the greatest challenge was simply staying warm.

The Maine lobster industry has a reputation as one of the best managed fisheries in the world—but few have considered how this ethic is enforced.

On New Year’s Eve, a small-scale protest never gets off the ground—thanks to police intervention.

A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?

Louie Palu describes his twelve years of photographing the mines and mining towns of the Canadian Shield

How an ’80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.

The rise and fall of the USSR can be read in the pages of the VQR archive.

Our Russian writer and the photographer Maisie Crow rejoin the crowd of more than one hundred thousand in Moscow.

I have been fortunate to peek in on the tireless creation of “Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now,” a short film by Maisie Crow with production assistance from frequent VQR contributor Jesse Dukes. Their poignant video complements a...