Skip to main content
[search]

Harvard

Enlightenment

By William Pei Shih, Illustrations by Kim Ryu

Summer 2019

Harvard, 1966. Abel Jones is in his third year. He is an exceptional student, head of the class. He is studying history. His area of focus, the eighteenth century. England and France. Still, there are days when he is lost.

0 Comments

Wallace Stegner to VQR Editor, 1938

Wallace Stegner to VQR Editor, 1938

Summer 2015

When he sent this letter to VQR Editor Lambert Davis, Wallace Stegner was in his late twenties and just starting to establish himself in national publications. From 1938 to 1943, he published three short stories and three book reviews in VQR. In 194 [...]

0 Comments

Some Thoughts on Sylvia Plath

By Kathleen Spivack

Spring 2004

The woman next to me was astonishing in her stillness. She appeared perfectly composed, quiet, almost fixed in her concentration. She was softly pretty, her camel's hair coat slung over the back of her chair and a pile of books in front of her. Her notebook was open, her pencil poised. Everything seemed neat. This was Sylvia Plath.

0 Comments