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Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names, Essays on Departure, and Desesperanto. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles and Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred...

An interview with the VQR contributor about the terrible effects of oil drilling on the Amazon and its inhabitants.

Indie publisher Melville House does it right. Their marketing of Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is a prime example.

Like all good writers, he was an inveterate borrower, at times wearing his influences openly.

The iconic death photo of Robert Walser has been artistically reinterpreted many times.

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The West African team—and Africa—is out of the World Cup. But watch out for Africa come 2014.

An interview with the poet, who is a contributor to the latest issue of VQR.

Islamabad, January–February 2010

The Western diplomat cuts two lines of cocaine on his iPhone and snorts them with a 100 rupee bill.

“Pure Colombian,” he says. “Don’t be shy.”

I shake my head.

“A bit of jet lag I expect?” he says glancing...