Recently added articles from The Virginia Quarterly Review:
IN MEMORIAM: George Garrett (1929-2008)
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... We mourn the passing of George Garrett-master of all genres, mentor to countless writers, and longtime friend of the Virginia Quarterly Review. VQR owes a great debt to George for reasons known to us and, given George's habit of quietly aiding others, surely many more reasons that are unknown to ...
No Way Home: Outsiders and Outcasts
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over ... -Walt Whitman, "Proud Music of the Storm" We all watched it on TV-watched as the storm surge breached levees and leveled neighborhoods, watched as people waved bed sheets from ...
THE GULF: A Meditation on the Mississippi Coast after Katrina
Jul 01, 2008; Trethewey, Natasha ... In 1956, just two years after Brown v. Board of Education, Robert Perm Warren set off on a journey south to explore the impact of the Supreme Court's decision. The slim volume he produced, Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South, offered insight into the people caught in what the Saturday ...
RETURN TO HAYNEVILLE
Jul 01, 2008; Orr, Gregory ... I was born and raised in rural, upstate New York, but who I am began with a younger brother's death in a hunting accident when I was twelve and he was eight. I held the gun that killed him. But if my life began at twelve with my brother's sudden, violent death, then my end, determined by the ...
A PRODUCT OF THIS TOWN
Jul 01, 2008; Garcia, J Malcolm ... tHE LOOP Outsiders, all of you. Your presence here a judgment on us. It was worst last September, when thousands of you descended with the indignation of embittered preachers. Businesses shut down. People stayed home behind locked doors. The silence of those days still lingers, ...
In Whitest Africa: THE AFRIKANER HOMELAND OF ORANIA
Jul 01, 2008; Kirchick, James ... Nearly twenty years ago, deep in the heart of South Africa, a group of hardy Afrikaners constructed Orania, a whites-only town that they hope to make the capital of a future country. Is Orania a place meant to preserve the culture of the "white tribe of Africa" or a haven for supremacists bent ...
COWBOYS & East Indians
Jul 01, 2008; McConigley, Nina ... I HAD BEEN FOLLOWING the house for almost two miles and, while trying to pass it almost ten minutes back, saw its cross-sectioned insides laid open like a dollhouse. I half expected to see a family posed stiffly at a dining table, their legs straight out beneath the tabletop. But instead, a ...
THE MAOISTS IN THE FOREST: TRACKING INDIA'S SEPARATIST REBELS
Jul 01, 2008; Motlagh, Jason ... The express bus from Hyderabad to Dantewada takes fifteen hours on a good day. As the suburbs of the software hub are left behind, and then the wrought-iron gates of Ramoji Film City, the smooth pavement falls apart. But the sweep of paddy fields and palms-a facsimile of the INCREDIBLE INDIA! ...
Game Over, Perseverance, All I Want Is Everything: Among the Roma of Bulgaria
Jul 01, 2008; Kenarov, Dimiter ... Stoyan is the mayor of Hope. He is also its doctor, social worker, psychologist, marriage counselor, teacher, judge. At ten o'clock on a sweltering June morning, I find myself in Stoyan's office, a tiny room in a one-story, derelict house with barred windows. The walls have been recently ...
Asal
Jul 01, 2008; Krasikov, Sana ... THE OTHER WOMAN came to Gulia's apartment late in the morning, after Rashid had left for Munich. He'd flown out of Tashkent while the sun was rising, to transact business with a resort developer who wanted to buy his rugs. At four, Gulia and Rashid had woken up to sip coffee, waiting for the ...
YOU DO NOT REPRESENT the Government of the United States of America
Jul 01, 2008; Alarcón, Daniel ... We were late arriving in Damascus, though I can't remember exactly why. There was traffic coming out of Aleppo, or perhaps we got lost in Damascus, or perhaps the stop for strong, bitter coffee along the way-our driver's eyes kept fluttering closed-took longer than it should have. In any case, ...
Tale of the Teahouse
Jul 01, 2008; Tharoor, Kanishk ... SEVEN DAYS BEFORE THE KHAN'S ARMY RAZED THE CITY, judges presided over their courts, babies were breast-fed, the teahouse clattered with cups emptied and smashed, puppeteers led shadows through the alleyways, men and women made love, and the hum of schoolboys repeating their lessons echoed from ...
No Roads Out, No Roads Home
Jul 01, 2008; Enders, David ... Palestinian Refugees in Iraq Mehyar said he had a car, but he didn't bring it with him. "It's broken," he told me, and I'm sure my expression gave away my dismay. "We can take a cab, or we can take my bike." By spring 2006, getting in a cab in Baghdad, especially as a ...
A Rose from Jericho
Jul 01, 2008; Naddy, Amro ... Israeli and Palestinian Poetry Introduction May 15 of this year marked the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of Israel-and the start of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.This struggle has now encompassed the Arab-Israeli War (1948), the Six-Day War (1967), the Lebanon ...
One Minute
Jul 01, 2008; Dotan, Shai ... Just one minute. I want to scream. I shot him. He advanced with a suspicious face. Who knew his pockets were empty, his bag full of clothes. Perhaps he didn't have a work permit, or once stole across the border. Perhaps he didn't hear my hands ...
Pears
Jul 01, 2008; Dotan, Shai ... The pears are not seen As the observer wills. -Wallace Stevens 1 Sometimes they are pears. At other times, sirens in a basket. And, not so often, violins one tunes with a stem. 2 Pears hold their heads up high, they ...
War
Jul 01, 2008; Nye, Naomi Shihab ... If this is what we studied for, heads bent over books at wooden desks engraved with the names of the dead, then I have a new feeling for subtraction. Olive trees, three acres slashed equals zero zero zero. That's my address. The grade on my ...
Listen, Tonight
Jul 01, 2008; Handal, Nathalie ... to the [eaves murmuring in the yellow fields to the aches of a peasant the pain of an abandoned child look at Tiberias disguised in shadows at the minuscule footsteps of stars feel the starving touch of a beggar and answer me why we ...
Second Generation
Jul 01, 2008; Globerman, Yael ... I The man who almost wasn't sits down at the table. The woman who barely made it serves him plum cake. This is my home: It is good here. Safe. Mother leans on Father. Father leans on shadow. At night they tiptoe into my room in beekeeper ...
The Desk
Jul 01, 2008; Globerman, Yael ... Unlike Icarus, I am learning to fly on my feet. Sometimes on ail fours. Still, the longing is one and the same: to row with two revolving arms closer to a burning thing. Five A.M., and the air is stormy. Again, it is dangerous to wade into ...