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.

See the trees lean to the wind’s way of learning.
See the dirt of the hills shape to the water’s way of learning.
See the lift of it go the way the biggest
wind and the strongest water want it.

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.