VQR Online

Summer 1996

An Open Letter to Christians, Both Born and Reborn: An Informal Essay

By Stephen Minot
Winter 1980

Epics of Empire

By Samuel Pickering
Spring 1996

Oporto-Style Tripe

Autumn 1977

Scraps From Beckett’s Workshop

By David Gates
Winter 1996

Fascism: the Wrong Idea

Winter 1978

The Island

By Carolyn Forché
Autumn 1995

Tom Stoppard’s Lighted March

By Joseph Hynes
Spring 1978

Overcoat

By Charles Simic
Spring 1995

I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There

By Michael Jay Katz
Summer 1978

Bruises

By John Unterecker