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Editor’s Note—This is part three of a four-part series [1, 2, 3, 4] on the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in flames (Priyam Dhar).

Editor’s Note—This is part two of a four-part series [1, 2, 3, 4] on the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

Police gathered outside the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower (Priyam Dhar).

Fernandes stole a look at the scene below. Bodies lay scattered on the station floor, slicked in blood. The gunmen scanned and swiveled. They shot from the hip, in steady bursts. On any other day, Fernandes would have taken them for college...

Next week we’ll publish a 19,000 word account of the attacks, on the occasion of the anniversary.

An interview with the regular VQR contributor about his coverage of tabloid journalists in Juárez who report on narco-murders.

Every time I crunch into a fuyu persimmon I feel guilty, like when I read the Times online or ignore my local bookstore for a cheaper copy on Amazon or Alibris.

A review of Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits and Robin Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.

The historian, musician, and poet visited us in 1927, and sent us seven poems afterwards. We present here, for the first time, those original manuscripts.

The Berlin Wall came down twenty years ago, but no fewer voices call out for freedom today.