Fiction
… something Carly has taught me. She has long advocated the combination of being vague and authoritative. I wait for a … and Alex lean together on the bookcase, their long, bony bodies side by side. Alex gives my sister’s waist a squeeze, … this year. He shows us a million uninteresting things. He points out a wooden beam in the ceiling that’s from an …
… glow like burning flames out of the intense pallor of her complexion, when I gaze on the passionate pallor of her lips, she seems to me almost a disembodied spirit. Those eyes have seen the eager hurrying faces … she sleeps, one might hope, eternally among the Im mortals, alone in one corner of the cemetery in Asolo that juts …
… Pilgrim’s Way. By John Buchan. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. $3.00. When John Buchan died on February 7,1939, the world was the poorer, not by … man, but by the loss of many fascinating personalities embodied in one seemingly frail human body. There was John …
Criticism
… long-term social and political impact of the flood was also enormous, a point Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly … at times worn perilously thin when the same questions and comments keep coming up. I’m afraid that Cheng has found … When Cheng was twelve, he has said, he and two of his buddies wrote adventure stories in a “fantastical …
Editor's Desk
… to all of our authors for their fine work and unwavering commitment to the magazine. The Emily Clark Balch Prize … to the literary awakening of the American South. When Balch died, she left the bulk of her estate to the University of … longtime VQR editor Staige D. Blackford to acknowledge his commitment to truth-telling and the publication of …
… dreams: green vastness licked by sweeping winds, bodies of water strewn with fishing boats, and her father. … would allow Sasha to use her desk to study English and welcome Sasha’s school friends with falsehearted warmth if they stopped by to visit. As a result, …