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Summer 2019
The summer issue explores variations on the idea of freedom. Resisting the hand of an oppressive political regime, finding a sense of normalcy under surveillance, strengthening community through reunion, and even the stifling effects of too much freedom: These stories provoke questions about how we exercise our autonomy, about its limits, and the constraints upon it.
Summer 2019
Volume 95, Number 2
Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00
Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Criticism
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
#VQRTrueStory
Notes to Self
Fine Distinctions
Contributor Profiles
Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern, 2012) and Forest Primeval (Northwestern, 2015), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wrig
Dina Litovsky received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University and her MFA in photography from NYU’s School of Visual Arts.
Eloisa Lopez is a photojournalist based in Manila, Philippines, with a special interest in stories on human rights, women’s issues, and religion.
Adam Willis, a former VQR intern, is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Politico, the Outline, Commonweal, and Slate.
Mark Wunderlich is the author of four collections of poems, most recently God of Nothingness (Graywolf, 2021).
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