Fall 2013

Volume 89/4

Jeff Sharlet on Harry Belafonte’s unfinished fight Garret Keizer on the enduring power of Motown’s music Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney’s art in the shadow of mortality William Ferris and Eudora Welty on her life and writing Fiction by Lisa Cupolo, Colin Fleming, Allan Gurganus, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Maya Lang Poetry by Greg Alan Brownderville, David Caplan, Danielle Chapman, Rachel Hadas, Linda Pastan, and Kevin Young

Fall 2013

Volume 89, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 2013 cover

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Audio

AUDIO / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Listen to Allan Gurganus Read “The Deluxe $19.95 Walking Tour”

By Allan Gurganus

Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Line in the Sand

By Elliott D. Woods

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Three-Stone Fire

By Andrew Beahrs

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone

By Garret Keizer

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Fall 2013

David Hockney’s Timescapes

By Lawrence Weschler

Profiles

PROFILES / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Voice and Hammer

By Jeff Sharlet

PROFILES / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Mandela’s Prosecutor

By Emma Rathbone

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Just Joking

By Beth Ann Fennelly

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Jack London: Beyond The Call of the Wild

By Michael Dirda

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2013

So History Begins With Us

By John Casteen

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Edwidge Danticat Illuminates Haiti

By Lisa Page

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2013

W. S. Merwin, the Eternal Apprentice

By John Freeman

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2013

To a Good Home

By Bret Anthony Johnston

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2013

The Talk

By Maya Lang

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2013

The Deluxe $19.95 Walking Tour of Historic Falls (NC)— Light-Lunch Inclusive—

By Allan Gurganus

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Teacups

By Lisa Cupolo

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2013

First Responder

By Colin Fleming

Plays

PLAYS / ISSUE: Fall 2013

The Jacksonian

By Beth Henley

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Flora

By Linda Pastan

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

By Kevin Young

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Song for a Kiss

By Greg Alan Brownderville

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Fisherman’s Beach

By David Caplan

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Silverdale

By Danielle Chapman

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

The Blue Changes

By Rachel Hadas

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Berries, Blood, Ash, Meteor

By Rachel Hadas

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Snapshot of Bess at Fifteen

By Linda Pastan

Talisman

TALISMAN / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Talisman: Ganesh

By Francine Prose

Mapping

MAPPING / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Exclaves

By Reif Larsen

Amateur Hour

AMATEUR HOUR / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Rad Scientist

By Jack Hitt

Interviews

INTERVIEWS / ISSUE: Fall 2013

A Map of Minds and Imagination

By William Ferris

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Fall 2013

Casting a Light on Iconoclasts and Ideas

By W. Ralph Eubanks

Contributor Profiles

Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet is an associate professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College and a VQR Editor at Large.

Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer is the author of nine books, including the memoir Getting Schooled (Metropolitan, 2014) and the poetry collection The World Pushes Back (Texas Review, 2018).

Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler, a contributing editor to VQR, is the former director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and artistic director emeritus of the Chicago Humanities Festival.