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… by the “Global South” in the 21st century as the region becomes a key participant in the U.S. economy’s move toward … and Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: ONE …
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… Pat Robertson. (Roslan’s PR firm Dera, Roslan, & Campion also represents Alice Cooper and the Institute for Human … Mr. Robertson personally to rebut the article. I have welcomed that rebuttal and offered to feature it prominently on our website. The ball is now in Mr. Robertson’s court. While …
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… Dreams of Poetry Istockphoto.com/Skrohn27 My initiation into contemporary poetry began … to transport us to worlds we never knew existed while also forcing us to look at our familiar surroundings anew, … scruffy underdog—the poem that, for all its accomplishment, points toward still bigger things. Considering all this …
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… on MFA programs’ devastating effect on literary journals and fiction : By the early ’70s—and with the development … school seemed to have its own quarterly. Before long, the combined forces of identity politics and cheap desktop … The argument is already on over at the Mother Jones website. Feel free to comment there or share your …
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… in their lives. They seek it out through awkward homecomings, infidelity, extravagant gestures of one kind or another that trigger curious turning points. A family reunites in tense celebration. A couple … as the years pass. Children betray and disappoint. Parents die. In these stories, an absence—of kinship, paternal love, …
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… of VQR on “The Female Conscience” —a term broad enough to encompass many ideas and arguments, even contradictory ones. … and importantly, we are not publishing these individuals because of gender, but rather because of their … received an Overseas Press Club award for her film on our website . (The New York Times came in second.) Crow edited …