Virginia Quarterly Review

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Welcome to the world, VQR 90.3, Summer 2014!

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Millions of Africans who ended up in the Americas passed through these dungeons. Visiting Cape Coast Castle, for a New World African, is, in a most distressing way, like coming home.

Camille T. Dungy, "A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses," VQR Summer 2014

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Under a Nuclear Cloud by Ed Ou is a multimedia piece from the Fall 2011 Issue that takes a look into the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Polygon, and explores the unexpected impact Soviet nuclear testing during the Cold War had on the residents of neighboring towns.

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Scales: On the Wings of Butterflies and Moths by Thomas Eisner takes a closer look at the wings of butterflies and moths.

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Explore Antarctica through Jason Anthony's long read: The Heartless Immensity from VQR's Spring 2009 Issue.

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With Easter just around the corner, flashback to Elliot Woods' multimedia article Easter in Gaza from the Spring 2010 Issue of VQR.

http://www.vqronline.org/web-exclusive/easter-gaza

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Charles Bowden's article, The Crazy Place, from the Fall 2009 Issue is a multimedia piece that captures the way of life in the Mexican desert while the Mexican government cracks down on drug cartels. Read more about the violence and hardships faced by the people who lived under the Juárez Cartel: http://www.vqronline.org/vqr-portfolio/crazy-place

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In honor of the 38th anniversary of Apple releasing it's first personal computer, Apple I, check out this flashback article from the Autumn 1983 Issue of VQR that addresses the potential impact of computers on society. http://www.vqronline.org/essay/printed-words-computers-and-democratic-societies

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Hugh Davis Graham exposes a new side of the humanitarian former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, in his article "The Paradox of Eleanor Roosevelt: Alcoholism's Child." from the Spring 1987 Issue of VQR.

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Poem by Hayden Carruth from the Autumn 1955 Issue. http://www.vqronline.org/making-dream

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Hardin Craig's Truth About Poe from the Spring 1942 Issue looks into the biography of the perplexing UVa graduate.

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Don't be fooled this April Fools Day! Robert Birnbaum's article Syllabus of Fakery points out the many hoaxes from the past century from the 1938 War of the World's broadcast to best seller books from Oprah's book club.

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Photos of Walt Whitman from Ed Folsom and Ted Genoway's article "This Heart's Geography" from the Spring 2005 Issue.

Read the full article which is embedded with photos of Walt Whitman, and has Walt Whitman quotes like the ones below interwoven into the long read.

“I meet new Walt Whitmans every day. There are a dozen of me afloat. I don’t know which Walt Whitman I am.”  - Walt Whitman

“It is hard to extract a man’s real self—any man—from such a chaotic mass—from such historic debris."   - Walt Whitman

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Today it seems like every show on television is about the US government: Homeland, House of Cards, Scandal and the list goes on. Robert Birnbaum explores how the government has been portrayed in popular novels and films in his article Making Sausages: Images of Governance. http://www.vqronline.org/criticism/2014/03/making-sausages-images-governance

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Louie Palu documents the lives of hard rock miners in Canada in his article The Underground Giant: Life in the Hard Rock Mines of Quebec and Ontario. Fall 2010 Issue of VQR 

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Nelson Mandela talks with Percy Yutar. Pretoria, South Africa. November 1, 1995. (Louise Gubb / Corbis Saba) — read "Mandela's Prosecutor" in the Fall 2013 issue of VQR

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VQR's founding editor, James Southall Wilson, had problems just like the rest of us.