In February 1935, James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University, decided his institution needed two things—a literary journal and a press. He drove his black Cadillac to Robert Penn Warren’s house and invited the newly-minted...
Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel, The Book Thief, shows that “YA” novels aren’t necessarily just for kids.
The Israeli writer celebrated a milestone this week, prompting some retrospective biographical pieces.
Ted Genoways talks to Dimiter about “The Mask of Sanity: On the Trail of a Serial Killer in Macedonia,” in the current issue.
The former first lady and VQR contributor answers a few questions about her photography.
The newest crop of books about the United States’ relationship with the Muslim world has a decidedly hopeful twist.
Utne reprints VQR, Time marks our founding, and readers turn a recent blog entry into poems.
The references to suicide in Wallace’s work have been made more potent by his own suicide, but it is a mistake to excise such passages.
In a world that fetishizes speed, the act of reading a long novel feels almost perverse. But perhaps longness is what we need most these days.
A brief interview with the author, in which he explains how he came to join a trek along a seasonal Kashmiri ice road.
