Virginia Quarterly Reviewさんのイラストまとめ

“How to pet an animal is the first and only thing I ever taught my daughter in earnest.”

In “Be Gentle,” Philip and Erin Stead bring their writing and illustrating chops, famed from A SICK DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE, to an essay about raising a thoughtful child.

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Today is Herman Melville’s (1819–1891) birthday! In 2013, we published @weegee’s essay “Do You Work With a Bartleby?,” which analyzes Melville’s famous scrivener of the same name and explores in what ways the archetypal character exists today.

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“As you live your life, you will, on occasion, be cut open and explored. It is what life is, part of the routine. Perhaps we should not be surprised.”

— Ben Marcus, "The Boys," from our Summer 2018 issue.

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"There are advantages and disadvantages to living a very long time, as I have. One of the advantages is that you can't help having a long view."

From @DavidNaimon's interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in our Summer 2018 issue:

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"Helen didn't care about Ben, not really. She just couldn't stand being humiliated."

— @elliottholt, "Geometry," from our Summer 2018 fiction issue. #VQRVault

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"For the life of a YouTube channel, drama of any kind is always good."

— Hannah Louise Poston, "The News From the World of Beauty," from our Summer 2018 issue. #VQRVault

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"You begin to wonder if you’re the boy in your behavior file, if the expulsion is an omen."

"Survivor Files" is adapted from @MitchSJackson's memoir, SURVIVAL MATH. You can read his work in the Spring 2019 issue.

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"The pleather lazyboy didn’t exactly capture the gypsy soul of Andalusia, but that’s fine because the sheets and towels smelled of fresh detergent."

"Holiday Review" by @SundeenMark is in the spring issue.

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"The officers threaten to charge her if you don’t admit to the shooting, and you wonder for moments what’s the handbook rule on a girlfriend who snitched. 'All right, all right,' you say. 'This what happened…' "

"Survivor Files" by @MitchSJackson

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"Think about losing things when you are a child, and how losing things thrusts you into a state of absolute despair, even if what you lost is relatively unimportant: toothbrush, sweater, homework folder."

"Stray Fragments" is by @ValeriaLuiselli.

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