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Summer 2016
Our summer issue explores a big, almost unwieldy question: How do we better understand ourselves through the animals around us? The question is a layered one, invested with themes of stewardship, responsibility, imagination, devotion, even citizenship.
This summer, on a weekly basis, we’ll be rolling out new content from a variety of genres—from reporting to poetry, fiction to photography. To keep up, we encourage you to sign up for VQR’s e-mail newsletter. Of course, if you prefer to dive into the entire issue at once, we’d love for you to subscribe.
Summer 2016
Volume 92, Number 3
Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00
Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Memoir
Criticism
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
Fine Distinctions
Editor's Desk
#VQRTrueStory
Notes to Self
VQR Vault
Amateur Hour
Contributor Profiles
Jane Alison is the author of several novels; a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009); and Change Me, translation of Ovid’s stories of sexual transformation (Oxford, 2014).
Bret Anthony Johnston’s most recent novel is We Burn Daylight (Penguin Random House, 2024). His work appears in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New Yorker, and The Best American Short Stories.
Laura Kolbe is a writer, physician, and medical ethicist in New York City. Her debut poetry collection, Little Pharma (Pittsburgh, 2021), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.
Lori Nix is a two-time NYFA grant recipient and serves on their artist advisory committee.
Amanda Petrusich is the author of several books about music, including Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records (Scribner, 2014).
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