… Young Man on the Flying Trapeze For some months “The Human Comedy” was on the best seller lists for books and double … with his girl’s demand for reality by leaving his job also and moving out of town into the certainty of … home in Armenia. Veneration for the dead dim heroes of medieval Armenia distills a peace which passes the feeble …
… its difficult transition period, with the war and the coming of the railroad, the depreciation of gold—the passing … in Alaska, back to Washington where she had lived at intervals before. A child of the east, she has “broken horses and … Cambs., England. He is a London University man and has studied at Oxford. His work, poetry and short stories, has only …
Editor's Desk
… Cotton was a long time a-dying, and Mississippi almost died of him first.” Historian John K. Bettersworth continued … Helferich explores whether the cash crop can make a comeback in the Delta. But that resurgence depends more on … presentation of photographs by Saha and Motlagh on our website at vqronline.org. Both “The Ghosts of Rana Plaza” …
Interviews
… who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our Winter 2013 issue . Today is the first … lasting friendships, sometimes temporary drinking buddies. I don’t recall the training to be a big deal, perhaps … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …
Interviews
… Walcott’s voice, “the world unravels.” It is a voice concomitant with the sea, and by connection, history. As I … , The Prodigal , and White Egrets , all move serially, completely in sway with the early vow made in “Islands”: … I sit here I can see him at the edge of the water [Walcott points to the sea] or sitting on one of the chairs, you …
… tells some particle of his day to her and she listens while also (silently) singing a song that goes, …