VQR Online

Spring 2003

Notes on Current Books, Spring 2003

Summer 1989

Who Now Reads Pope? And Why?

By Douglas Lane Patey
Summer 1989

The Challenge of Russian Nationalism to Soviet Stability

By Hugh Ragsdale
Autumn 2003

The Promised Land

Winter 1989

Tommy

By Thomas Lynch
Autumn 1988

Agents From Academe

By Richard T. Arndt
Summer 1982

The New England Mind Revisited

By Philip F. Gura
Autumn 1991

Speakeasy

By Samuel Pickering
POETRY / Autumn 1982

Christ’s Descent Into Hell

By Rainer Maria Rilke ,  Translation by Franz Wright

When it was too much, he went out
of the body’s unspeakable suffering. Rose. Stepped away.

Summer 1991

The Journey to the South: Poe, Borges, and Faulkner

By John T. Irwin