2024 BIENNIAL FICTION ISSUE | VQR

A national journal of literature & discussion

Fall 2024 Cover. Illustration by Johanna Goodman.

Photography by Adam Ekberg

Lawn Chair Propelled. 2017. (ADAM EKBERG, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CLAMP, NEW YORK)

2024 BIENNIAL FICTION ISSUE

A Soviet Jew Walks Into a Bar in Harlem

By Anna Badkhen , Illustration by João Fazenda
Hello From Nowhere

By A. J. Bermudez , Illustration by Michelle Thompson
Kirk Creek

By Claudia Sims Black , Illustration by Melanie Lambrick
Do You Hear What I Hear?

By Gabriel Brownstein , Illustrations by Melanie Lambrick
The Pilot

By Nikki Ervice , Illustration by Michelle Thompson
Time of the Preacher

By Bret Anthony Johnston , Illustration by João Fazenda
The Informant

By Matthew Lansburgh , Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke
Japanese Denim

By Juli Min , Illustration by Melanie Lambrick
The Operation

By Susan Minot , Illustration by Michelle Thompson
Well-Made Flesh

By Koye Oyedeji , Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke
Churches

By Derek Palacio , Illustration by João Fazenda
Falconer

By Corinna Vallianatos , Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke

Lawn Chair Propelled. 2017. (ADAM EKBERG, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CLAMP, NEW YORK)

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Issue: Fiction 2024 / Volume 100 / #2

Published: August 8, 2024