Image
Fall 2014
New Voices in Fiction
Five Photographers to Watch
Mark Edmundson on his paint-factory education
Stephen Goodwin on a promising young writer’s rise and fall
Philip Kennicott on the depiction of gay males in twentieth-century literature
Dax-Devlon Ross on the role of race in jury selection in North Carolina
Joshua Hersh on Syria’s forsaken refugee camp
Roxane Gay on the price of black ambition
Poetry by David Baker, F. Douglas Brown, Jehanne Dubrow, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Maggie Smith
Criticism by Rebecca Onion, Cynthia Shearer, and Lisa Russ Spaar
Fall 2014
Volume 90, Number 4
Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00
Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Memoir
Criticism
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
Fine Distinctions
Mapping
Editor's Desk
Talisman
Amateur Hour
Contributor Profiles
Joshua Hersh is a journalist who has covered the Middle East since 2009. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the Huffington Post, among other publications.
Roxane Gay is the author of several books, including Difficult Women (Grove, 2017); the memoir Hunger (Harper Collins, 2017); and the essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, 2014), the title essay of which first appeared in VQR. Her writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Short Stories, Best Sex Writing, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, TIME, the Nation, the Rumpus, and Salon, among others. She is a founding editor of PANK.
Dax-Devlon Ross is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Make Me Believe (Outside the Box, 2011) and Beat of a Different Drum (Hyperion, 2005). His work has been featured in the New York Times, Democracy Now, WNYC, and Time.com. He was nominated for a Hillman Prize in 2014. He holds a JD from George Washington University.
Recent Issues
Spring 2025
Volume 101,
Number 1
Spring 2024
Volume 100,
Number 1
Fiction 2024
Volume 100,
Number 2
Fall 2024
Volume 100,
Number 3