VQR Online

Spring 2000

What to Make of the Old Civil Rights Movement: A Partial and Partisan View

By Leslie W. Dunbar
CRITICISM / Summer 1984

The Masquers

By Joyce Carol Oates

I am lying, you say hesitantly, tasting
the thin syllables, gauging their feathery weight
in the air: chill fine whining notes.

 

Autumn 1999

“A Definable Jewish Character”

By Jack R. Fischel
Spring 1984

Some Legacies and Lessons of Vietnam

By George C. Herring
Summer 1999

Grading the Lilies

By Carol C. McIntosh
Winter 1986

Northern Words

By Colette Inez
Spring 1999

In the Desert

By John Smolens
Autumn 1985

Cookbook, Autumn 1985

By Walker and Claudine Cowen
Autumn 2001

Counteracting the Powers of Darkness

By Floyd Skloot
Summer 1985

The Great Bean Field Hoax: Thoreau and the Agricultural Reformers

By Robert A. Gross