VQR Online

Duch stands trial for crimes against humanity.

The Short Story Bubble may not cause the global economy to collapse, but it might take down a few literary magazines.

Day 2. The genius of Charles Baxter and the difficulty of following Marilynne Robinson.

Day 1. Eight thousand lonely souls schmooze, discuss their craft, and attend readings.

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference starts tomorrow, with four days of literary readings, panel discussions, schmoozing, and an enormous book fair.

Move along with them—discover some literary podcasts.

We just flipped the switch and made public every single poem, story, essay, and book review that appeared in VQR from 1975 through 2003—the whole of Staige Blackford’s tenure as editor.

We interview this VQR contributor about life as a foreign reporter, airplane literature, and her exposé on the epidemic of depression and prescription drug dependency in Cuba.

Works of literature on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict—four from the Palestinians, four from the Israelis, and one in between.

Back in the 1980s, my parents bought their first home, in Georgetown, Massachusetts, from a writer named John Updike.