VQR Online

As our readers realize, we underwent a staff transition at VQR over the past two years and at times had only one employee, Ted Genoways, selecting and editing the magazine’s content. Thus, it is remarkable that VQR received three National...

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today honored the Virginia Quarterly Review with three nominations for its prestigious National Magazine Awards—the magazine world’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. VQR, edited by Ted...

As publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review, it’s my pleasure to announce the appointment of Jane Friedman as Web Editor. Friedman, the former publisher and editorial director of Writer’s Digest, will join our staff in June to develop...

At the latest government-sanctioned rally, the greatest challenge was simply staying warm.

On New Year’s Eve, a small-scale protest never gets off the ground—thanks to police intervention.

The Maine lobster industry has a reputation as one of the best managed fisheries in the world—but few have considered how this ethic is enforced.

A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?

Louie Palu describes his twelve years of photographing the mines and mining towns of the Canadian Shield

How an ’80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.

The rise and fall of the USSR can be read in the pages of the VQR archive.