Fall 2009

• J. Malcom Garcia rides with a crime scene photographer in Juárez • Simon Apter follows a drug mule trying to go straight • Natasha Trethewey & Joshua Cogan on Gulfport, Mississippi • Paul Reyes on a movement to reclaim foreclosed houses in Miami • Installment #6 of “Jordan W. Lint” by Chris Ware • Poetry by Bruce Bond, CJ Evans, and Thorpe Moeckel   
Fall 2009

Volume 85, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 2009 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Criticism 
Art 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Editor's Desk 
 

Contributor Profiles

Natasha Trethewey, a VQR contributing editor, served two terms as the nineteenth poet laureate of the United States (2012 – 2014).

Simon Maxwell Apter is the online editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. He is a regular reviewer for NPR’s Books We Like department, and his commentary and criticism have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Natio

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