Poetry
… he adorned himself with the townspeople’s best language. He commissioned a photo, which he turned into Christmas cards. … the photo finds the homepage. The Empathetic Dictator has died , the newspaper reports. The townspeople are sad . The …
… By Humpty Dumpty, Or Quitting the Liberal Label We liberals are in danger. We may disappear from politics—all … on everything, soft on crime as well as soft on communism, This mighty chorus blames a liberal trend for … ever to resound on this planet. For him liberalism embodied civilization. It embraced standards, courtesy, justice, …
Fiction
… on the outside, but Lao Buddhist temples on the inside—got complaints, were shut down, vandalized. Neighbors gossiped, … after his mother moved into the temple, Boun Lai’s father died. He was put in a wooden box—a makeshift coffin, the lid … it really was about the money. Boun Lai recalled the funerals of other men, one in particular who had been placed …
… The Waves. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. All Passion Spent. By V. Sackville-West. … Doran and Company. $2.50. Maid in Waiting. By John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $2.50. The … diction and to the same tempo. Who marries whom and who dies how is of no moment save that it be available for use …
Editor's Desk
… frequent VQR contributor Jesse Dukes. Their poignant video complements a superb work of narrative journalism, “The … made both versions of this story available for free on our website. Such content is the reason I joined the VQR staff. … “both/and”—when it comes to offering rich content to audiences with distinct preferences in terms of how and how …
… in the popular mind. Generally speaking, human beings, complacent as ever in their judgments on them selves, seem … is the unit; the individual is the fractional ingredient. The theory of Americanism has not yet been so fully … rare actions of good men. A generous admixture of beauty is also visible in such creations as railway engines, …