Columns

The US is filled with remarkable diasporic hot spots, where immigrant and refugee communities have sprung up, most often due to secondary migration patterns.

Mesa, who is thirteen, began inventing in grade school. 

Eudora Welty speaks about her life and art.

A wise man once said that every story is the story of someone trying to make a home in a place where he doesn’t belong. The world is filled with such places. An exclave is a piece of land not bound to the rest of its territory, orphaned by...

What’s the difference between blues and rhythm and blues?

In October 2012, VQR gathered innovative thinkers in the publishing industry to talk about where, exactly, this business might be headed. We delved into the risks and rewards of digital journalism, the tension between Internet giants and...

Alice Munro, who has set much of her canon in her native southwestern Ontario, has long been considered one of the foremost writers of psychological fiction in English.

Guy Gonzalez interviews writers who are fathers to discus the challenges of being a writer-parent.

An interview with Kelsey Timmerman, author of Where Am I Eating? (Wiley, 2013), which investigates what the reliance on imported food means for Americans, as well as for the people around the world who produce our food.