Essays
… Mother Country A Parent's Complicated Repatriation After moving to California, in … her life, that she would not have to work until the day she died. In California, with her children finally grown, Mom … resembling her younger self, me, or my brother. She also constructed woodblocks, stamps, and art books. It …
… That Virginia holds an enviable place among the commonwealths of American balladry is fully attested by such … ballad authorship scholars are “not far apart on essential points,” reveal Dr. Davis as one who would find a middle … anthologist, has done justice to the rich folk-song materials at his command. Several important appendices round his …
Essays
… Barry stomps out of his truck shaking his head, and points behind me toward the road. “You need to reverse out … few days later, he carries not a yellow legal pad but a briefcase and soda cup from Hardee’s. He wears the same boots … and forever on his way to work, rumbling through the rain. 26-53 By Benjamin Rachlin Photography by Peter Frank Edwards …
… than in most other countries of Europe and America, was a complete surrender to the Gang. And they were impelled to … produces not merely the incalculable suffering of individuals we see all around us, but obviously threatens the … sterns to be this one which menaces the lives, the bodies, the minds, and the cultural achievements of millions …
Interviews
… culminated in an essay and a series of poems in VQR, accompanied by Kenneally’s photographs. I wrote Susan to … about the details I include, but with the documentary goals of the project I had to try and be more comprehensive. … “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found …
Memoir
… by Manjula Martin ( @manjulamartin ) is part of our online companion to our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of … store. There, I still had to flatten cardboard, but I also shelved pocketbooks—sci fi, mystery, and Westerns—in … from Some Canonical Author Dude” on one of the literary websites I frequent when I came across a news item about a …