Spring 2000

Volume 76/2

VQR has been continuously published from the University of Virginia since April 1925. Our 75th Anniversary issue features a selection of essays on the most important issues of the millenium, plus poetry from Mary Oliver, and more…

Spring 2000

Volume 76, Number 2

Print: $10.00

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2000

A Southern Chronicle

By Edward L. Ayers

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2000

Gravel

By Mary Oliver

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

American Literature and America, 1925-2000

By Sanford Pinsker

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Provisions

By Martha Zweig

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Why the Media Love Presidents and Presidents Hate the Media

By Michael Nelson

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Notes on Current Books, Spring 2000

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

What to Make of the Old Civil Rights Movement: A Partial and Partisan View

By Leslie W. Dunbar

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

How Christianity Spread

By John Portmann

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Journalism.Com

By Alexander Burnham

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Cloak-And-Dagger Days

By Jack R. Fischel

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Anna Freud and J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield

By Robert Coles

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

The Green Room, Spring 2000

By Staige D. Blackford

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Television: “One Vast Ubiquitous Library”

By Paul Duke

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

“Doomed to Misfortune? If Not to Dissolution”

By Joel H. Silbey

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

The Wren and His Children

By Ed Ochester

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

‘Capriciously Ongoing’: Eleanor Ross Taylor’s Late Leisure

By Panthea Reid

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Dreaming About My Father

By Ed Ochester

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

The Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, 1925–2000: Changing Stances of Constitutional Review

By G. Edward White

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Case History: Melancholia

By Hugh Seidman

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Christ and the Body of Christ: Is There A Future for the Christian Church?

By John S. Spong

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

The Daily Racing Form

By Hugh Seidman

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

Mission Impossible? Bridging the Gap Between Modern Art and Its Public

By Deborah Rothschild

/ ISSUE: Spring 2000

On the Other Side of the Poem

By Hugh Seidman

Contributor Profiles

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019) was the author of more than fifteen collections of poetry, including Blue Horses (Penguin, 2014); New and Selected Poems, Volume One (Beacon, 1992), which won the National B

Edward L. Ayers

Edward L. Ayers is an American historian and the ninth president of the University of Richmond.