Poetry
… hear the tortured voices on the ceiling calling out for completion, amputated, each face shadowed with his own, …
… to discourage all efforts to prevent it, but it has also made the recurrence of war doubly sure by giving it a … by continual fear and danger of violent death, man has been compelled, says Hobbes, to do what is wholly against his … most often made vocal in law-making, government-building bodies. There is, on the other hand, a less accessible body of …
Editor's Desk
… of modern storytelling to reach the broadest possible audience. His long-form essays, his stunning photographs, his … the Mumbai terror attacks. Not only are these honors welcome recognition of VQR’s efforts to forge a new kind of … He’s on his way now. So visit the Assignment Afghanistan website now and sign up to follow Elliott’s movements on …
Fiction
… dreary the rest of the world was—was roughly analagous to comparing Xanadu with a federally subsidized … had seen her. Christine wondered about anorexia. She would also like to know, from Maury, whether Maury took drugs, if … laughing and kidding around and acted as if a cop had come to the door of a party. They had been buying scallops. …
VQR Vault
… of all topics and to all stimulating and engaging points of view.” Essay topics included international … the Roanoke Times put it. In a letter dated December 4, 1926, Richmond-based author James Branch Cabell praised the … D. H. Lawrence, Luigi Pirandello, Katherine Anne Porter, Diego Rivera, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vita Sackville-West, Allen …
Essays
… Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000” In the “Artworks (II)” section of “Usonian … Rich’s work of the last two decades imagines and embodies a jazz-inflected process that bears witness to … a temple to greed. Staring into the political abyss, she comes to the realization that “I was no longer connected …