Skip to main content
Home
VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW.

Utility

  • About VQR
  • Issues & Archive
  • Contributors
  • Donate
  • Store
  • Cart (0)

Main navigation

  • Essays
  • Fiction
  • Reporting
  • Poetry
  • Portfolios
  • Columns
  • Special projects
    • Log in
    • About VQR
    • Issues & Archive
    • Contributors
    • Donate
    • Store
    • Cart (0)

User account menu

  • Log in
Image
Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

Site Search results

  • (-) Story (5163)
  • Criticism (593)
  • Essays (469)
  • Fiction (172)
  • Reporting (163)
  • Poetry (131)
  • Editor's Desk (84)
  • #VQRTrueStory (59)
  • Interviews (46)
  • Profiles (45)
  • Person (45)
  • Memoir (44)
  • Articles (41)
  • Photography (40)
  • Fine Distinctions (16)
  • Amateur Hour (13)
  • VQR Vault (10)
  • Notes to Self (8)
  • On Becoming (8)
  • Talisman (7)
  • Art & The Archive (6)
  • Plays (6)
  • Portfolios (6)
  • Art (5)
  • Basic page (4)
  • Human Practice (3)
  • Mapping (2)
  • Audio (1)
Actress and Critic
… the jewels, the caprices, the menagerie of strange pet animals and reptiles, and all the other affectations and … press agent was. And she was no fool: she lived and died within her means. She was certainly, no skinflint: she … and an obscure music critic on the Saturday Review, are completely consistent with Shaw’s introductory portrait. …
Poetry
Aftermath
… lack of graciousness, the salt-laced crest and crumble of bodies mimicking waves, the freakish winds and seasonal …
Kellogg. Cruisers and Sanity
… and short-memoried. At the moment it is utterly engrossed, completely sold, and passionately enthusiastic over the … resulted from such legerdemain was then offered to the audience—like a rabbit out of a hat—in the form of income tax … by the Mitchell Controversy. As a result of the oil scandals a new Secretary of the Navy came into office who has …
Essays
The Breakup Museum
… objects hung on walls, tucked under glass, backlit on pedestals: a toaster, a child’s pedal car, a modem handmade in … pregnancy stick. A positive drug test. An axe. They come from Taipei, from Slovenia, from Colorado, from Manila, … longer than their relationship, he said: “made of sturdier material.” When Olinka and Dražen finally found a …
The Candy Spoon
… only for a half day in their married life had Coot been completely in her good graces. The backseat fire burned … Ouida’s house, her old family home. After Ouida’s father died, Ouida and her mother (who died shortly afterward) had come home to live with Aunt …
Captain Barfoot Tells His Tale
… may not fight with fate. Earth still holds ope her gate; Come! come! the bells do cry. I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us! Thomas Nashe—”Song” Seeing is … then holding in place, just so, with intricate laces and points, with hooks and eyes, with buttons large and small. …
  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Page 847
  • Page 848
  • Page 849
  • Page 850
  • Current page 851
  • Page 852
  • Page 853
  • Page 854
  • Page 855
  • …
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »
Virginia Quarterly Review
5 Boar’s Head Lane, P.O. Box 400223
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Tel: 434-924-3675
Fax: 434-924-1397
Copyright ©2024 The Virginia Quarterly Review. All rights reserved. / Contact VQR / Privacy policy
Home