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Spring 2015
Erik Vance on the perils of the shark trade
Sierra Crane-Murdoch on working the sugar-beet harvest
Colleen Kinder on Iceland’s rancid culinary celebration
Jason Motlagh on Cuba’s ice-cream craze
James Conaway on Napa Valley and the Jeffersonian ideal
Lauren Markham on how chefs claim their creative turf on Instagram
Jessica B. Harris on what historical postcards teach us about foodways
Kevin Young on an unlikely civil-rights hero
Bill McCullough on the American wedding
Pamela Erens on eating and the pleasure of denial
Siva Vaidhyanathan on authentic South Indian food
Fiction by Sarah Frisch, Ross McMeekin, Andrew Malan Milward, and Deborah Willis
Poetry by Michael Bazzett, F. Douglas Brown, Ansel Elkins, Brooks Haxton, Linda Pastan, Todd Portnowitz, Maggie Smith, and Crystal Williams
Criticism by Scott Korb and James McWilliams
Amateur Hour by Jack Hitt
Talisman by Amy Bloom
Mapping by Megan Suau
Fine Distinctions by Gregory McNamee
Spring 2015
Volume 91, Number 2
Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00
Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Memoir
Criticism
Portfolios
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
VQR Vault
Talisman
Fine Distinctions
Mapping
Amateur Hour
Editor's Desk