Reporting
… garment manufacturers like China and India, both of which also grow significant portions of the global cotton supply. This international supply chain is comparatively new. Through the mid-twentieth century, more … cost only rises: In 2013, more than 1,100 garment workers died in Bangladeshi factories. The Bangladesh RMG industry …
… put to contain the inherent violence of groups and individuals within their own borders, it seems appropriate for … Aggression . With some modifications, their point of view combines Freud’s assumption about the interplay between … and attempting to make one’s ideas accessible to a wider audience without losing the respect of one’s academic peers. …
Interviews
… who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our Winter 2013 issue . This installment … to AIDS (which was called GRID then); your first child died a few hours after her birth; your next child suffered a … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …
Essays
… published in 1971, impressed me for many reasons. It was a coming-of-age story about a young girl, and while I was … that girls and women were expected to abide by. There is also something about her writing that is so accessible. She … about intimate family relationships, and it has shifting points of view, so the reader would ask, “Where is the truth …
… “The birds I need get harder and harder to come by,” said Merritt. “DDT has just ruint the birds here. … killed the hell out of the birds too. Someday before I die, I’m going back to Vaiden to the hills and get out of … boxes lined with cotton, full of all kinds of birds, Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and hummingbirds. The boxes were …
… George Meredith: An Obscure Comedian When I was very young, people used to tell me—good … world of the novel, and Hardy might, although I had rather die than live to see that come. I can readily admit that … This brilliance he has been accused of, but it is a false accusation. He sees the essential humor in situations, …