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ESSAYS / Spring 2026

Truth’s Path

By Philip Kennicott
Forest trees with light in middle
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Proof of Joy Williams’s “Dr. Caligari Loves,” 1969

By VQR Staff
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Proof of Eleanor Roosevelt's "Keepers of Democracy," 1939

By VQR Staff
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Manuscript of Joyce Carol Oates's "Convalescing," 1969

By VQR Staff
Autumn 1957

Pageant of Jamestown

By Donald Hall
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Manuscript of Arthur C. Clark's "Shaw and the Sound Barrier," 1960.

By VQR Staff
FICTION / Summer 1969

Dr. Caligari Loves

By Joy Williams

Manuscript of H. G. Wells's "The Betterave Papers," 1945

By VQR Staff

Of the Muse

By May Sarton

There is no poetry in lies,
But in crude honesty
There is hope for poetry.

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Letter From Nadine Gordimer to VQR Editor, July 7, 1951.

By VQR Staff