Editor's Desk
… to all of our authors for their fine work and unwavering commitment to the magazine. The Emily Clark Balch Prize … to the literary awakening of the American South. When Balch died, she left the bulk of her estate to the University of … longtime VQR editor Staige D. Blackford to acknowledge his commitment to truth-telling and the publication of …
… dreams: green vastness licked by sweeping winds, bodies of water strewn with fishing boats, and her father. … would allow Sasha to use her desk to study English and welcome Sasha’s school friends with falsehearted warmth if they stopped by to visit. As a result, …
… Jay Monaghan’s Civil War on the Western Border, 1854—1865 [$26.95 cloth, $9.95 paper]. With the boys of summer dashing … America became, was first published in 1952 and has since become a modern classic. A new paper edition of this work has … as well as the other highlights of her long life (she died in 1972), are discussed in Philippe Jullian and John …
Essays
… himself to death. In his first flush of freedom—he had come to Iowa from a land ruled by a military dictatorship—he … from the 1960s, “like the locked antlers of moose / who die on their knees in pairs.” Well-chosen words may help us … the language and the depths of his or her soul to discover points of correspondence with the Other. Finding out who he …
… one which brings advantage to the people as a whole. Compromise may be a political necessity, but it is not … in the form of publication of letters from outraged soldiers, is that labor has not kept its no-strike pledge and … be possible to quote official statistics in support of the points made and to enter upon long and involved statistical …
Reporting
… open to the West but, unlike many of their compatriots, not enchanted by it. Far from being elites, … the Islamic Republic’s thirtieth anniversary. Facing an audience of experts on Iran that included several gentlemen … The young men loosened up and described where the flashpoints were. They had already witnessed indescribable …