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Fall 2008

Fall 2008

The War at Home

Volume 84, Number 4

• 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
  

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When Janey Comes Marching Home

By Laura Browder, Sascha Pflaeging

Fall 2008

The first time I heard a woman describe her time in Iraq in glowing terms, I was taken aback. Marine Colonel Jenny Holbert told me that being in charge of public affairs for the second battle of Fallujah was “probably one of the biggest events [...]

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Editor’s Desk

Poetry

Criticism

Multimedia

Author Profiles

Elliott D. Woods

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

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

Laura Browder’s most recent book is Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America (North Carolina, 2006).