Current Issue

In VQR’s Winter 2024 issue, Cig Harvey's portfolio is a manifesto on the underappreciated power—the seriousness—of nature’s colors. Lauren Markham reports on trying to transpose the American Dream onto a life overseas, as part of Italy’s one-euro housing project. Will Boast finds company among literary greats who all, like him, suffered from volatile indigestion. Kelly McMasters weighs the meaning of a simple bulb of garlic—the last vestige of her former marriage. Michael D. Kennedy’s comic finds Duke Ellington stranded on Mars. Eugene Richards shares a visual journal of his travels across America. The issue also features fiction by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Paul Theroux, and James Whorton Jr.; poetry from Jada Renée Allen, Susan Eisenberg, Sara Nović, and D. S. Waldman; a #VQRTrueStory by Miriam Jayaratna; an On Becoming column by Clayton Dalton; and an Open Letter from Woshibai, trans. by Tiffany Wu.

Cover photo by Cig Harvey.