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Unlike the men there, I wore a yarmulke. I explained my situation to the waiter behind the counter, asking if I could take a bottle of water and pay him back the next day. He firmly said no.

The poet talks to VQR about his creative process. Three of his poems are included in our summer issue.

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In 1929, Thomas Wolfe—whom William Faulkner described as the greatest writer of his generation—published his...

The journalist is safely back in Athens.

Journalist Iason Athanasiadis is released from Iranian custody.

275,232 books were published in the US last year. Don’t publications have an obligation to review only those books that warrant serious consideration?

Iason Athanasiadis to be released “in the next few hours.”

What does the King of Pop have in common with the main character of an 18th century German novel? Quite a lot, in fact.

After the last of four back-to-back hurricanes pummeled Haiti in August and September 2008, mountains of garbage, mud, raw sewage, and debris were left behind, clogging the streets of Port-au-Prince. A spate of unbearably hot and humid days...