Columns

An interview with Alice Munro begins precisely on time, and always with a quick, friendly, personal exchange of greetings and news. Then we’re off on an odyssey in which a couple of hours fly by as we discuss her stories and how they came...

Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names, Essays on Departure, and Desesperanto. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles and Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred...

An interview with the VQR contributor about the terrible effects of oil drilling on the Amazon and its inhabitants.

An interview with the poet, who is a contributor to the latest issue of VQR.

A look at frontline reporting in the war in Afghanistan with the freelance journalist and VQR contributor.

An interview about the war in Afghanistan with the former Iraq War veteran, freelance journalist, and VQR contributor.

We talk to the documentary photographer and VQR contributor about his coverage of the intense warfare in parts of Afghanistan.

The VQR contributor talks about “The Bombing at Bala Baluk,” from our current issue, and about the effect that errant US airstrikes are having on the support of the Afghan population.

A brief Q&A with the author of “An Elliptical Essay On Violence,” Falco’s article about the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in our current issue.

An interview with John Williams, the founder of online literary magazine The Second Pass.