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An interview with the regular VQR contributor about his coverage of tabloid journalists in Juárez who report on narco-murders.

Next week we’ll publish a 19,000 word account of the attacks, on the occasion of the anniversary.

Every time I crunch into a fuyu persimmon I feel guilty, like when I read the Times online or ignore my local bookstore for a cheaper copy on Amazon or Alibris.

A review of Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits and Robin Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.

The historian, musician, and poet visited us in 1927, and sent us seven poems afterwards. We present here, for the first time, those original manuscripts.

The Berlin Wall came down twenty years ago, but no fewer voices call out for freedom today.

The five essays he published with us in the 1930s reveal the evolution of his thoughts and ideas about the contemporary South and its literature.

Catherine Corman’s photographs, paired with passages from the novelist’s work, attempt to invoke Chandler’s L.A. within the contemporary streetscape.

Can a good book ever be a good movie?

The heckling of a peace activist just shows how little Americans are used to hearing from the Palestinian perspective.