… the colors of your dresses turned against you. The gold key committee in your home town kept changing the rules. …
Editor's Desk
… be releasing a series of multimedia projects—created as companions to the print photo essays—here on the blog, … release of the special issue, we’re also launching a new website of reporting from Afghanistan by Elliott Woods. The … among a rising generation of storytellers by finding new audiences for their work and a new business model for …
Essays
… number of significant characters and take place in highly compressed periods of time. Troubling Love , the first, is … is combined with prose in which imagination and reality are also merged, which creates confusion and claustrophobia for … and impressed me because she was very bad.” Lila is disobedient at home and at school; she likes to play dangerous …
VQR congratulates the 2023 Winners The Emily Clark Balch Prizes and the Staige D. Blackford Prize were created to honor the best writing to appear in the pages of VQR each year. Past recipients include John Berryman, Philip Caputo, Pauline W. Chen, …
… By Gwilym 0. Griffith. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. But all of this is recent history, and the … with the drama of Mazzini’s inner life, Mr. Griffith deals with Mazzini less as an Italian than as an exile, … of the prophet had “a more decisive effect” than is commonly supposed. To say that Mr. Griffith’s “Mazzini” is a …
… for their momentary popularity. Such fleeting praise, coming from the thin minds of those who read only to be in … and the prevalence of a group of pale “intellectuals” who devour pages without a taste for them—I can … drab realities of average living until it has lost its audience through its own dullness. A tale which used to open …