Fall 2011

Maria P. Vassileva on Chernobyl’s resurrection Steve Featherstone on loose nukes in Ukraine Jason Motlagh on the Soviet hangover in Belarus Dimiter Kenarov on getting arrested by the KGB Fiction by Alan Heathcock, Kseniya Melnik, and Maggie Shipstead
Fall 2011

Volume 87, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 2011 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Memoir 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Editor's Desk 

Contributor Profiles

Jason Motlagh is an award-​winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker.

Maria P. Vassileva is a graduate student at Harvard. She has published a collection of poetry in Bulgarian, and her translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation. This is her first published essay.

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