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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
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Print: $14.00
Digital download: $14.00
Table of contents
Reporting
Essays
Criticism
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
#VQRTrueStory
Notes to Self
Fine Distinctions