Summer 2010

• A Special Portfolio of Iranian Writers • Anthony Ham on the town disappearing into the Sahara • Kelly Hearn on Peru’s Tiananmen • Matt Donovan on the Trinity nuclear bomb test • Fiction by William Malatinsky • Poetry by Adrienne Rich, William Kloefkorn, and Temple Cone
Summer 2010

Volume 86, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2010 cover
Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00

Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2010

The Road to Enlightenment

By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2010

How to Build a Bomb

By Kaveh Bassiri
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2010

Richard Feynman at Los Alamos

By John Canaday
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2010

Confrontations

By Adrienne Rich
 
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Living Without It

By William Kloefkorn
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Inside Iran: Introduction

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Prelude to a Revolution

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Breath

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Tangofugue

By Temple Cone
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code

By Kamin Mohammadi
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Island in the Sand

By Anthony Ham
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Getting High

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

A Rabble of Butterflies

By Temple Cone
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

After You

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

A Jungle Tiananmen

By Kelly Hearn
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Dumb

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

The Rest of Silence

By Temple Cone
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Their Black Imaginings: Letters from an Exiled Wife to Her Imprisoned Husband

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

A Gentle and Angry Instrument: Robert Walser’s Short Fiction

By Jacob Silverman
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Should I Have Known

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Heroes

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Fear and Trembling

By Temple Cone
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

If You Didn’t Kill the Cuckoo Bird

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Odd, Exhausting, and Beautiful

By Brendan Wolfe
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Leaving Trinity: Ten Ground-Zero Swerves

By Matt Donovan
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Miracle

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

The Birdcatcher

By Temple Cone
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

It Was the End of the Sixth Day

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Book Notes

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Jordan W. Lint, Installment #7

By Chris Ware
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Mother and Child

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

This Particular Tartar

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

The Voice of the Revolution

By Ted Genoways
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Uzon

By William Malatinsky
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

In the Hospital

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Essay on Novels

By Campbell McGrath
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Sometimes Miracles

By Andre Lambertson
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Late Morning, Almost Noon

By William Kloefkorn
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Fly

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Sentinel

By Cecily Parks
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Deep Empathy

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Babble

By William Kloefkorn
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

White Pigeon

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

As Charged

By Idra Novey
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Prelude

By Kwame Dawes
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Memory

By William Kloefkorn
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Ashes

/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Memorias do Cárcere

By Idra Novey
/ ISSUE: Summer 2010

Badge

By Kwame Dawes

Contributor Profiles

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was a widely read poet and essayist who published more than thirty collections of poetry and prose during her lifetime.
Anthony Ham

Anthony Ham is a Madrid-based freelance writer and photographer with a special interest in the Sahara and Sahel.

Recent Issues

Find more back issues in our archive
Spring 2024 Cover; Photo by Mathias Depardon
Spring 2024
Volume 100, Number 1
Fiction Issue Cover. Photo by Adam Ekberg.
Fiction 2024
Volume 100, Number 2
Fall 2024 Cover. Cover art by Johanna Goodman.
Fall 2024
Volume 100, Number 3
Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2023 cover
Spring/Summer 2023
Volume 99, Number 1