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The Virginia Quarterly Review
The Virginia Quarterly Review is a magazine focusing on current and historical literary subjects. Since it was founded in 1925, it is produced quarterly. The magazine is published by the Virginia Quarterly Review.Subjects for The Virginia Quarterly Review include literature and literary reviews. The editor is Ted Genoways. Contributing editors are Molly Minturn and Kevin Morrissey
Articles from Vol. 79, No. 1, Winter
A National Disgrace
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he public care of the chronically mentally ill in the United States is a national disgrace, and it has been for most of the last two centuries. Twice in that period reforms have been undertaken: the first reform took the patients out of the community...
Another Century of War?
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Another Century of War? by Gabriel Kolko. To state the matter bluntly, the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 are directly attributable to the foreign policies that this country has implemented since the end of the Second World...
A Season in the Dismal Trade
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I used to work in a funeral home. Rains & Talley, the establishment was called. It occupied a pink brick building that bad once been a private residence there on East Austin Street, just up from the Dairy Queen, in my hometown of Marshall, Texas....
Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806-1848
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Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806-1848, by Stephen G. Hyslop. Hyslop examines the cultural interaction among Americans, Indians, and Mexicans in New Mexico and along the Santa Fe Trail, from Zebulon Pike's trip...
Calley's Ghost
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Bizarre as it may seem, an internet search for the name William Calley now leads you directly to his alumni association web page at Edison High School in Miami, Florida. The first thing you see is his graduation picture, class of 1962, in which he already...
Camouflage
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CAMOUFLAGE The poem that argues successfully against death finds its place in the book you can buy in stores that do not sell poetry. If it's a bad poem, and it is, does that really matter? Sorrow doesn't want the truth, doesn't need to think. I know...
Chosen
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It was a Tuesday afternoon in early June. School had been out for a week. Iris's husband, Aaron, had settled a lamb roast in marinade, then taken the dog, Lulu, for a walk on the golf course. When the doorbell rang, Iris was reading Harper's, working...
Feeling Lucky
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Midnight, and Bruce Little was hunched against a pay phone under the awning of The Saint John Divine Hotel, shivering with cold and dialing collect to Mississippi. He called twice. No answer either time. This was February. This was Richmond. His daughter,...
George Washington: A Biographical Companion
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LIVES & LETTERS George Washington: A Biographical Companion, by Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. It would seem that we have little to learn about the most important American of the 18th century, especially if we have read Freeman, but we were wrong. Indebted...
Great Power Politics: Retrospect and Prospect
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. By John J. Mearsheimer. W.W. Norton. $27.95. The least turbulent distribution of international power, John J. Mearsheimer reminds us, is the bi-polar standoff of two superpowers, such as that which ended when the...
Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
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Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy, by Peter Stanfield. "Dust, dust, dust in the skies, dust on the trail, dust in my eyes / Dust, dust, can't see the sun, can't find my way, the dust has won." Leonard Slye, a former member...
Learning the Lessons of Early Modernism
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21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics. By Marjorie Perloff. Blackwell Polishers. $54.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Marjorie Perloff's 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics is the fourth book in the new Blackwell Manifestos series, a series which...
Literary Ladies of Dixie
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The History of Southern Women's Literature. Edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. L.S.U. Press. $49.95. (Southern Literary Studies, Fred Hobson, Editor). Surely a number of readers of The Virginia Quarterly Review will remember Adlai Stevenson's...
Playwrights, Presidents, and Prague
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The press reports that Czech president Vaclav Havel recently unveiled a bronze statue of Masaryk in a Washington park. Masaryk, for most American readers, is only the dim memory of a foreign minister found dead in a Prague courtyard, after the Communists...
Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology
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Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology, edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz. One of my favorite poetry anthologies has long been Rattlebag, edited by Seamus Heany and Ted Hughes, which has the charming quality of being neither historical...
Power Dark, Power Bright: Robert A. Caro, Robert Moses, and Lyndon B. Johnson
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The story of Robert A. Caro and his first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, has entered the realm of authorial legend. The elements of the tale are familiar, at least among journalists and writers: how Caro left an investigative...
Reds and Radicals in Hollywood
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Radical Hollywood. By Paul Buhle and David Wagner. The New Press. $29.95. Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s. By Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley. Prima. $25.00. Neil Gabler's book An Empire of Their Own:...
Reviewery
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Reviewery, by Christopher Ricks. A collection of reviews is a perilous thing; it necessarily suppresses what is essentially the reviews' primary interest-the books reviewed-and foregrounds what is essentially secondary-the reviewer's voice. To read such...
Spotting Leopards in Postwar America
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By STEVEN G. KELLMAN Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. By Morris Dickstein. Harvard University Press. $15.95. The 1950's are the Midwest of American cultural history, the flyover flatlands slighted by critics...
Spring 1933
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The boy was riding a dark horse, crossing a field of yellow-star grass and olive green shadows. A slip of a stream, logs so recently cut their ends were white and circled with clear, brown rings. One had the stump of a broken branch on its side. The...
The Burden of Light
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When Jonathan Holmes decided to go to England again, his wife Gloria had been dead for seven years. For seven years he filled every waking moment with matters so trivial and obsessive that they even entered most of his dreams and blocked her presence...
The Great War and American Memory
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Academic historians have a penchant for tagging simple things with fancy titles. One example is interviewing or seeking out recollections by participants in events. Right after World War I such journalist biographers as Ray Stannard on Woodrow Wilson...
The Green Room
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"Here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal." MICHAEL NELSON hardly needs an introduction to VQR readers having previously written an article on Frank Sinatra and another on Garrison Keillor among other contributions. His essay, "The Good,...
The Invisible Hand
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THE INVISIBLE HAND No, I just can't write today, I said to myself, sprawling on the couch, my mind an open invitation to sleep, when there it was: The Invisible Hand. A title. Having arrived unbidden, it felt like inspiration, but like a movie as well,...
