Editor's Desk
… overthrow the government, they do feel that their secluded community is one of the few places in the nation unbound by … These reported pieces are evidence of VQR’s continued commitment to tackling global and international affairs. But … voices as well as the way they have shaped their work. Also, this marks the first time any of these four writers— …
… West Germany. The essays, addressed mainly to an academic audience, engage in novel ways with popular culture, memory, … usefully collects Ian Watt’s essays on one of the focal points of his scholarly career, Joseph Conrad. It will … as a white champion of black culture, at least until 1926 when he lost the goodwill of many blacks by publishing a …
Essays
… The classical era of the American space program has come to an end. After a quarter century in which peaceful … their location within l/100th of a mile. The system can also guide ballistic missiles with uncanny precision. The … period. Moreover, Earth’s geological history, once studied in isolation, now stands in a new relationship with the …
Editor's Desk
… up from a get-together with his rat pack of middle-school pals. Tag in the woods behind the house, night coming on. Tripped on a root along the path, fell head-first … suffering.” The consequences are unmistakable. As Silverman points out in her story, a 2023 survey of physicians found …
Essays
… of “Jennifer Lorn,” in the autumn of 1923, and to commend this story in the public prints (according to the … that “The Orphan Angel,” when it was published in 1926, affected me very much^as, in the cliche at least, does a … as if with a caress. A few of them may even pretend to die, with unruffled decorum. Their little porcelain tongues …
Fiction
… Creatures of This Place I have come to visit Texas, the bayou country. If I sit here the … can be discussed, from several altogether practical standpoints, including the most practical of all, economical. I … come except without coming I would not have seen the lizard die a mysterious death on the claws of the cat, would not …