Columns

An interview with the author of the short story “The Cowboy Tango,” which appears in our current issue.

“‘The wise man believes that destiny exists, and that it has need of him. Not fate—destiny.’ In their difference lies a writer’s life.”

In 1982, David Wyatt analyzed where the Star Wars franchise was headed. We asked him to consider how his forecast turned out.

The author of “Beirut Rising” answers questions about the city’s political future, travel writing, and reporting in territory where journalists are suspect.

The poet talks to VQR about his creative process. Three of his poems are included in our summer issue.

The former first lady and VQR contributor answers a few questions about her photography.

A brief interview with the author, in which he explains how he came to join a trek along a seasonal Kashmiri ice road.

Jim Harrison on the importance of being well read and his favorite poets.

We interview this VQR contributor about life as a foreign reporter, airplane literature, and her exposé on the epidemic of depression and prescription drug dependency in Cuba.

The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro’s collection of stories forthcoming from Knopf in November, will be her twelfth volume in a distinguished career that has spanned more than fifty-five years and has garnered resounding international...