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  1. Organizing Principles
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  1. Lyres’ Club: Christopher Nogy’s Passion for Medieval Instruments
  2. Joshua Foer
  3. pp. 12-18
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  1. Begin Again: How Yoga Unlocks the Writer Within
  2. Dani Shapiro
  3. pp. 19-21
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  1. Into the Blind Spot: Learning to Trust What You Can Barely See
  2. Howard Axelrod
  3. pp. 22-29
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  1. Muscle Memory: Life on the Female Bodybuilding Circuit
  2. Dawn Whitmore
  3. pp. 30-53
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  1. Begin Cutting: Education by Knife
  2. Gaurav Raj Telhan
  3. pp. 54-60
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  1. Horoscope for My Dying Father
  2. Michael Shewmaker
  3. p. 61
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  1. The Lure of the Hunt: How Falconry is Faring in America
  2. Amanda Giracca, Brendan Bullock
  3. pp. 62-81
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  1. Prose Poem in the Classic French Manner, and: Poem in the Manner of Max Jacob, and: Poem in the Manner of Henri Michaux, and: Hotel
  2. David Lehman
  3. pp. 82-85
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  1. What the Kurds Want: Syrian Kurds are trying to build a leftist revolution in the midst of a civil war. Is it a new Middle East, or just another fracture?
  2. Jenna Krajeski
  3. pp. 86-105
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  1. Colony Collapse Disorder, and: Alice, Bewildered, and: The Shadow Teacher
  2. A. E. Stallings
  3. pp. 106-108
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  1. Happy Families Are All Alike
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  1. Other People’s Birthdays
  2. Ann Beattie
  3. pp. 110-118
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  1. Your Father Would Be Proud
  2. Elliott Holt
  3. pp. 119-125
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  1. Efficient Breaches: A Romance
  2. Praveen Krishna
  3. pp. 126-135
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  1. The Lineaments Gratified Desire
  2. Richard Bausch
  3. pp. 136-157
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  1. Worldly Goods
  2. Taylor Antrim
  3. pp. 158-169
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  1. Endangered Trades: In northeast Brazil, artisans struggle to compete with the modern world
  2. Nadia Shira Cohen, Paulo Siqueira
  3. pp. 170-185
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  1. Art in the Time of Politics: In the Afterglow of Détente at Havana’s Twelfth Biennial
  2. Julia Cooke
  3. pp. 186-199
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  1. Recent Fiction From Our Pages: VQR is proud to have published stories and novel excerpts that are included in the following books.
  3. pp. 200-201
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  1. Knausgaard’s Triumph
  2. Pamela Erens
  3. pp. 202-207
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  1. The Storm That Won’t Quit: New Books on Hurricane Katrina
  2. John Lingan
  3. pp. 208-211
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  1. The Art of the Steal: Fiction by Ceridwen Dovey and Valeria Luiselli
  2. S. Kirk Walsh
  3. pp. 212-216
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  1. Scout Comes Home Again
  2. Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
  3. pp. 217-221
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  1. Raven vs. Crow
  2. Gregory McNamee
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  1. From The VQR Vault: Ornithology
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  1. Katherine Anne Porter’s Manuscript of “The Grave,” 1935
  3. p. 225
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  1. Featured Contributors
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