Winter 2005

• Robert Bly and James Wright: A Correspondence • A Tribute to Carol Shields by Margaret Atwood • Shields’s last short story, “Segue” • George Garrett on writing Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster • Sven Birkerts on Max Frisch’s Montauk • Stephen Boykewich reports from Moscow on Russia after Beslan • Previously unpublished photos of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison • Joyce Carol Oates’s story of suspense, “So Help Me God” • New poems by Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, and Mark Doty • Louis D. Rubin, Jr., on recent biographies of Teddy Roosevelt
Winter 2005

Volume 81, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2005 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
Profiles 
Criticism 
Art 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Editor's Desk 
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