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Spring 2021
This issue marks the first anniversary of the coronavirus through features that share themes of separation and dissonance—both physical and ideological, personal and public. Features include Dina Litovsky’s photo essay on the atmosphere of Manhattan’s first lockdown last spring; May Jeong’s report on the repatriation of Afghan migrants to a home country they barely know; Ryan Bradley on the worlds we find underground, which few of us even know about; T Kira Madden’s short story on the splitting of a self in grief; and Rachel Vorona Cote on the strange anachronisms that make recent period dramas so unique.
Spring 2021
Volume 97, Number 1
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Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Criticism
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
#VQRTrueStory
Mapping
Drawing It Out
Open Letter
Fine Distinctions
Editor's Desk