Image
Fall 2008
• Elliott Woods on a suicide bombing in Iraq and its aftermath • Joshua Casteel on his time as an Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib • Mara Hvistendahl on China’s gender imbalance • Blake Bailey on John Cheever’s childhood • Another installment of “Jordan W. Lint” by Chris Ware • Oscar Villalon on why football is America’s new pastime • Poetry by Ted Kooser and Albert Goldbarth
Fall 2008
Volume 84, Number 4
Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00
Table of contents
Criticism
Art
Poetry
Editor's Desk
Contributor Profiles
Elliott D. Woods is a contributing editor to VQR. His VQR-sponsored website Assignment Afghanistan received the 2011 Digital National Magazine Award for Multimedia Package.
Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country (Norton, 2014), and two collections of poetry, Here, Bullet (Alice James, 2005) and Phantom Noise (Alice James, 2010).
Laura Browder’s most recent book is Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America (North Carolina, 2006).
Recent Issues
Spring 2024
Volume 100,
Number 1
Spring/Summer 2023
Volume 99,
Number 1
Fall 2023
Volume 99,
Number 3
Winter 2023
Volume 99,
Number 4