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The first run, from Tampa to McAllen to Greensboro, was a bit of a lark. Maria was living in Tampa, and she was bored. So when a friend, someone she knew to be a Mexican drug cartel–affiliated smuggler, appeared at her door with a business...

Don’t make the mistake of calling her
angel or saint. The tremendous broad crowning
Troy’s war monument grips her sword

Chris Ware contributes the sixth installment of “Jordan W. Lint,” a “serialized pictorial fiction,” to the Fall 2009 issue of VQR.

The house is in need of repair, but is—
for now, she says—still hers. After the storm,
she laid hands on what she could reclaim:

Did you know? You have the right to receive food stamps within a few days if you are eligible and have little or no money. Do any of these apply to you?

I should like Kennedy, there’s something about walking past a display lined with copies of True Compass that strikes a sour chord.

His long, full life included a Guggenheim fellowship, service in WWII, and a brief stint in the Peace Corps at the age of 76.

They’ve passed on naming the controversial Farouk Hosni as their new director general, choosing Bulgarian Irina Gueorguieva Bokova.

Winners of the annual “genius grants” announced.