VQR Online

Winter 2001

The Pleasure Principle

By Jon Loomis
Summer 1987

Eagle Against the Rising Sun

By Andre G. Kuczewski
Autumn 2000

How the Age of Iron Turned to Gold

By Patrick Donnelly
Spring 1987

Some Versions of Paradise

By Douglas Lane Patey
Summer 2000

Notes on Current Books, Summer 2000

Autumn 1986

Sirspender, the Last Romantic Poet

By Richard Jones
ESSAYS / Autumn 2002

Why I Don’t Read Books Much Anymore

By Morris Freedman
Summer 1986

Reason, Nature, and the Future of American Liberalism

By Peter J. Steinberger
Winter 2003

The Great War and American Memory

By John Milton Cooper Jr.
POETRY / Summer 1988

Dancing With God

By Stephen Dunn

At first the surprise
of being singled out,
the dance floor crowded
and me not looking my best,
a too-often-worn dress
and the man with me
a budding casualty
of one repetition too much.