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Winter 2015
Alison Stine on a forgotten folk-music genius
Dimiter Kenarov and Boryana Katsarova on a Russian-language theater in occupied Crimea
Kwame Dawes and Andre Lambertson on confronting HIV/AIDS and shame in Jamaica
Ricardo Nuila on health care for undocumented immigrants
Preston Lauterbach on Beale Street’s influence on Faulkner’s Sanctuary
Liesl Schillinger on her midwestern Soviet childhood
Thomas Chatterton Williams on race and modern identity
Ishion Hutchinson talks with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott
Fiction by Charles Baxter, Tiffany Briere, Aaron Gwyn, and Amanda Korman
Poetry by Mark Conway, Alexa Mergen, David Petruzelli, Kim Roberts, Nicholas Samaras, and Lisa Russ Spaar
Criticism by John Domini and William Giraldi
Amateur Hour by Joshua Foer
Talisman by Andre Dubus III
Mapping by Haisam Hussein
Fine Distinctions by Gregory McNamee
Winter 2015
Volume 91, Number 1
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Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Criticism
Fiction
Poetry
Mapping
Interviews
Talisman
Editor's Desk
Amateur Hour
VQR Vault
Contributor Profiles
Dimiter Kenarov is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and a contributing editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based critic, columnist, moderator, and translator.
Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2013). He has edited more than a dozen anthologies.
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