VQR Online

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...

Our staff welcomes Jon Parrish Peede and Donovan Webster.

A young woman writer reports from yesterday’s protests in Moscow.

Notes from the author’s imprisonment in Belarus.

Bill and Lyla had graduated, gotten married, and departed directly for Europe. Lyla’s parents had given them a thousand dollars to spend on a honeymoon, sowing the seeds for months of argument. Bill wanted an adventure, but Lyla, who had...