Essays

On both the political and economic fronts American foreign policy has been on an uneven track of stumbles and reversals. On the political front the stumbles—Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti—have been the most visible but in many ways the most...

Lawrence Weschler on his role in the decades-old disagreement between two giants of art.

Hayden Carruth, a frequent contributor to VQR, passed away at 87.

Charlotte Kohler, the sixth and longest serving editor of VQR, passed away this week at the age of 99.

Wired is chronicling their entire idea-to-print publishing process via blog.

Democrats are on an upward glissando.

The unofficial Palestinian national poet has died.

By now making fun of hipsters is far too easy for anyone to bother, so the Canadian magazine Adbusters has taken things a step further. The current issue’s cover story, “Hipsters: The Dead End of Western Civilization,” (over-)written by one...

Paris is becoming a cultural backwater, doctors are becoming art scholars, and more.