Essays

Even a bad novel should be treated with a kind of respect.

Losing print books means losing the personal touches that accompany them.

Four months ago, I was hopeful about it. How does the 2010 edition fare?

One writer’s take on the annual writing conference.

A brief look at Sherwood Anderson’s contributions to VQR, featuring his original manuscripts and VQR’s correspondence with him.

The website devoted to “correspondence deserving of a wider audience” is fascinating.

As I bend over the desk about my writing I am crouched before Aesred in something like an attitude of supplication: whensoever I look up from the typewriter keys, and over the top of my reading glasses so that I may quite clearly see my...

By bringing together some seventy of his recent poems, Mark Van Doren, while continuing old themes, makes it clear that he has interested himself in a new theme for poetry. Psychologists might call this new preoccupation empathy, an intense...

Haiti, as it turns out, isn’t particularly prone to earthquakes. Hurricanes and political turmoil, yes: it seems that every few years Haiti is buffeted with one or the other of those, and, either way, lots of people are killed. But...