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Poetry
Congregation
Natasha Trethewey
Returning to Gulfport to look at the place with the detached gaze of an outsider was no easy task (Joshua Cogan).
Portfolio
Call of the Narcocorrido
J. Malcolm Garcia
Two men listen to the strains of a narcocorrido drifting from a police scanner. They know that someone will die tonight (Darren McCollester).
Portfolio
Game Over
Robert Anasi
The whole night was a gangster paradise: pretty girl, fancy restaurant, fawning waiters, Jesse thumbing cash from a big roll (John Ryan Brubaker).
Dispatch
Inheritance of Dust
Lygia Navarro
For most of Eduardo’s lifetime, the corn made the town run. And then, simply, it did not. (Jason Florio)
VQR Gallery
Jordan W. Lint
Chris Ware
The sixth installment of Ware’s ongoing story.
Dispatch
Opportunity Knocks
Paul Reyes
One late-October afternoon, Rameau and other volunteers raided the empty lot, building a shantytown out of pallets and plywood as the Miami police surrounded them.
Portfolio
The Crazy Place
Charles Bowden
There are two ways to lose your sanity in Juárez: Believe that all the violence is the direct result of a cartel war or believe that none of it is (Julián Cardona).
Portfolio
Manny’s Story
Jordan deBree
“Al Qaeda is sitting in the kitchen with my mother right now.” Manny whispers. “Terroristas. You hear me?” (Lindsey Freer).
PoetryWater ClockBruce BondThe water clock makes into a measure / a flow so continuous none can say / this thing inside the river has a river’s // sense of time. Cold Range, Hot RangeThorpe MoeckelWe’re at the Potts Mountain Shooting Range / on a hot day in March, blowing ammo, / hosing the shale. Submachine, .357 / Glock. FictionThe Vanishing AmericanLeslie ParryIndian #9’s voice was gassed out of him in a trench in the Argonne Forest. After the war he’d left Chicago and come to California; with no voice, he decided to seek work in the movies. VQR GalleryJordan W. LintChris Ware
The sixth installment of Ware’s “serialized pictorial fiction.” Critic’s NotebookThe Death of the American DreamLuke S. H. WrightFour years at West Point is no longer the quick avenue to real power and influence; in the twenty-first century it is four years at Goldman Sachs. |
Blog7 Questions for Maggie ShipsteadAja Gabel
An interview with the author of the story The Cowboy Tango, which appears in our current issue. It charts decades in the lives of a crotchety rancher, nicknamed The Otter, and a stoic young woman he hires to help out with the horses. Recent Books“I Have Decided Not to Die”Jacob Silverman
“To read these books is to discover the pervese blueprint utilized by successive governments in Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda.” A review of Grigoris Balakian’s Armenian Golgotha and Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate. Book NotesReviews of new and forthcoming works, including Robert E. McGlone’s John Brown’s War against Slavery, Phillip Lopate’s Notes on Sontag, Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City, and many more. |
