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)
Essays
Tragedy and the Whole Truth
… There were six of them, the best and bravest of the hero’s companions. Turning back from his post in the bows, Odysseus … is an accurate account of particular events, But it might also strike the reader as being ‘true’ with regard to … all Greek, all French, and most Elizabethan tragedies are found wanting. Only the best of Shakespeare can …
The Position of Ingres in the Modern World
… age, and deserved to win it the year before, when he first competed. Finished works of admirable quality dating from … who meant so much to him, he was one of those prodigies who come into the world with a full equipment for the course … from a desire to balance accounts between the two famous rivals. No thought could be further from my mind, nor will I …
A Century After Tocqueville
… a defeated country; we are not short of land and raw materials; we are not going to put on shirts or uniforms, abandon … years ago they as solemnly prophesied the arrival of communism when Congress enacted an infinitely light … his account at the time appeared to have been the local bodies, town governments, and State assemblies, offering so …
Criticism
Driving Off Into the Sunset
… mobile DJs assembled a scene : loose networks of people who competed against one another, bolstered one another, and saw … the racing itself, and the group of attractive driver-criminals led by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), a transcendentally authentic and powerful figure …
Editor's Desk
The Green Room, Summer 2002
… and C.S. Lewis, but he is known in the political science community for books that he has published on the American … at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He has also been a member of the History Department at Ohio State … essay, Emily Couric was a Virginia state senator who died of pancreatic cancer in Charlottesville last October. …
Something Quiet
… I had never seen a woman smoke before. Sheer black ladies’ underwear hung where anyone could see. Newspapers … have a boy’s thing . She chose flesh and pulled down her undies just as her mother stepped in from the lighted hall … they go down there . If one bites you on the throat you’ll die . I called to Faye, my father, Jesus, cried until I was …
  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Page 467
  • Page 468
  • Page 469
  • Page 470
  • Current page 471
  • Page 472
  • Page 473
  • Page 474
  • Page 475
  • …
  • 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