VQR Online

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.

The five essays he published with us in the 1930s reveal the evolution of his thoughts and ideas about the contemporary South and its literature.

Catherine Corman’s photographs, paired with passages from the novelist’s work, attempt to invoke Chandler’s L.A. within the contemporary streetscape.

Can a good book ever be a good movie?

The heckling of a peace activist just shows how little Americans are used to hearing from the Palestinian perspective.

An interview with the author of the short story “The Cowboy Tango,” which appears in our current issue.

Gold buttons in the garden today—
Among the brown-eyed susans the golden spiders are gambling.
The blue sisters of the white asters speak to each other.

Late in the winter came one day
When there was a whiff on the wind,
a suspicion, a cry not to be heard