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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. 88, No. 4, Fall
A Book of Martyrs
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YES. I WANT THIS.He asked if she was sure. She said it again, Yes.The vow was unspoken between them: Once started on their drive into a more northerly part of the state, once embarked upon this journey, they could not turn back.It was a drive of approximately...
Bad Feminist
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MY FAVORITE DEFINITION OF A FEMINIST is one offered by Su, an Australian woman who, when interviewed for Kathy Bail's 1996 anthology DIY Feminism, described them simply as "women who don't want to be treated like shit." This definition is pointed and...
By the Wind Grieved
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By the Wind Grieved What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell. Edited by Suzanne Marrs. Mariner. 499 p. PB, $16.95.IN THE SPRING OF I976, William Maxwell left his job as fiction editor of the New Yorker,...
Cradle to the Grave: The Making of an Art Activist
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IN 2002, THROUGHOUT THE SuB-SAHARAN region, more than 40 million children were orphaned from AIDS, poverty, and political conflict. In Kenya alone, the count was over one million. While photographing in the streets of Kibera, one of the largest slums...
Cu Chi
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ARNEY SAYS THIS IS THE KIND OF HEAT THAT makes people in Australia shoot each other. Or stab. Strangle. Run over. Whatever. But we are not in Australia. We are in a onceinfamous city, which its inhabitants still call Saigon. And it has not rained in...
Dreaming of El Dorado
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In La Rinconada, Peru, the highest human habitation in the world, legions of miners seek gold and one young girl seeks an education.FOR AS LONG AS SENNA OCHOCHOQUE can remember, she has worked to support her family. She began at four, helping prepare...
Driving My Own Destiny
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MY NAME IS MANAL AL-SHARIF. I'M FROM Saudi Arabia. I want to tell you about two separate chapters of my life.Chapter one is the story of my generation; it begins the year I was born, 1979.On November 20 of that year, there was a siege of Mecca, the holiest...
Forty Acres and a Year
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Spring into SummerEVEN WITH THE CHALLENGE OF BELOW NORMAL rainfall, spring turned out to be a beautiful time of year at Charlane Plantation. While the drought continues, the good news is that we have had rain at critical times, which for the most part...
How to Write Science
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How to Write Science The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code. By Sam Kean. Little, Brown. 401 p. HB, $25.99.SCIENCE IS A TOUGH SELL. Even science geeks who enter college intending to major...
Is There Such a Thing as the Female Conscience?
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SURELY THE MOST FAMOUS CRISIS OF conscience in American letters is the battle of young Huckleberry Finn with his shaggy hold on right and wrong. Having befriended the runaway slave in Mark Twain's classic, Huck struggles: Should he turn in Nigger Jim?...
Is Too Much Mothering Bad for You?
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A Look at the New Social ScienceHOLLY SCHIFFRIN AND MlRIAM LlSS, PROFESSORS of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, spent their early years as students reading about the perils of insufficient mothering: John Bowlby's...
Labor
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SEPTEMBER WAS LOUISA'S TURN TO HOST. Even though her pregnancy, entering its seventh month, had begun to be burdensome, she was determined to give her friends a proper home-cooked meal, and she heckled the butcher for his freshest and most tender lamb....
My Fight
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At the 2012 Olympic Games, boxing allowed female competitors for the first time. Katie Taylor of Ireland took a gold medal. She was inspired by pioneering Irish boxer and World Champion Deirdre Gogarty. This is the story of how a teenage Gogarty began...
My Life as a Girl
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MAYBE I JUST WANT TO BE PRETTY.Maybe I just want to feel pretty, or to look pretty. Some of those goals seem impossible, or incompatible, or prohibitively difficult; not worth what I would have to sacrifice. I'm a man, but I like dressing up as a woman,...
Of Flight and Life
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Journals and CorrespondenceNOT ONLY DID ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1906-2001) live through most of the twentieth century, but her adventures, personal history, and written reflections made a significant mark upon her era. A pioneer...
One to Watch, and One to Pray
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We passed the baby over the bed, and later we passed tissue,and her Bible with its onion skin pages, its highlighted lessonsand dog-eared parables she kept handy with bookmarkswhose tassels hung and swayed as her hairmight have done when she was very...
River Women of Brazil
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At the mouth of the Amazon, a long tradition of bartering sex for a taste of modernityTHE SMALL VILLAGE OF SÄO FRANCISCO da Jararaca, located on the island of Marajó, on the Amazonian Delta, is practically a forgotten place - almost impossible to find...
Sailing to Antarctica
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The problem is the voicesI can't get out of my head. On the bridge, the captain's playing"Break On Through"; he's beenPlaying "Stormy Weather." Go ahead, Google World'sRoughest Crossing. GoogleShipwreck, and Lost at Sea. Meanwhile, the shipIs tearing...
The Female Conscience
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WHEN I WAS A CHILD, MY MOTHER- AN Anglo-American with a deep love for England - told me about Boadicea, a fierce Briton who defended her tribe from the depand abuses of Roman invaders. My was the only American I knew: a tall, feisty beauty with piercing...
The Kerouac Voice
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The Kerouac Voice The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac. By Joyce Johnson. Viking. 512 p. HB, $32.95ONCE UPON A TIME IN America, five dollars would buy enough gas to drive from Tucson, Arizona, to California. This was during the postwar...
The Sweet Spot in Time
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Why the Ocean Matter to Everyone, EverywhereAN EYE THE SIZE OF MY FIST PEERED through the window near the bunk where I lay, half awake, I just past midnight on July 20, 2012. A goliath grouper, a fish larger than my desk, swerved past me into the dark...
"What Is the Wholesale Price of the Traveler's Vade Mecum?"
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The Traveler's Vade Mecum, Line #8206In 1853, A. C. Baldwin published The Traveler's Vade Mecum, a compendium of more than 8,000 phrases that could be referenced by number, creating a code for communications over long distances.I intend to converse with...
