Fiction
… listening, or pretending to. It’s not easy to be in the company of all of these cops. I’m not comfortable with it, … This time it’s the sergeant. He says, “I’ll flash my Freddie.” At first, all my brain processes is him saying “I’ll … he turned and began writing on the whiteboard, January 26: Invasion Day. That was all it took. He wrote his name on …
Criticism
… of books, encyclopedia articles, professional publications, computer manuals and magazines, student papers. […] I am confident that I … as have 300 writers , including VQR contributors Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood . 5. We published Dan Chaon’s short …
… have to make at the Last Judgment for the mayhems I then committed upon the minds of quite decent college students. … journalism is gone forever. Nevertheless, the idea is a false one; it is applesauce, it is hooey, it is the sublime … Greensboro, North Carolina, “News,” one of the sanest, steadiest, and withal most enlightened newspapers to be found in …
… all interested in gender, history, and cross-cultural studies. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past, by … Revolution saw the emergence in Halifax, England of a new commercial class made up primarily of large-scale … virtually swamping his reader with information. This excess points up the real problem with this work: it has no clear …
Criticism
Island, 1949 Walking the crude rock dam above the rapids. Why are you doing it?— you might fall, drown, arms useless as wings. You can’t turn back, others are watching. And such slow water above the dam like thin slee- ping mud. That …
… the height of Jim Crow, most newspapers in the region had become “sensitive to the dangers of racial conflict” and … public utterances, primarily in the form of his editorials, and his most intimate and heretofore unavailable … and rarely published for a regional or national audience (a 1927 article in the Virginia Quarterly Review …