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Sixty Hours of Terror: “By the Grace of Allah”
Jason Motlagh
The finall installment of our four-part series on the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks (PEDRO UGARTE / AFP / GETTY IMAGES).
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).
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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.
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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).
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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).
Poetry
Women of Troy
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
These women self-identify as poor. Theirs is a day-to-day existence in which there is much drama but little change (Brenda Ann Kenneally).
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).
PoetryCold 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. Ghost PoemCJ EvansHere is my solitary city. This island of steel / and avenue. Towers with skeletons of organ // pipes that pierce the clouds’ flocking. . . FictionThe Cowboy TangoMaggie ShipsteadWhen Mr. Glen Otterbausch hired Sammy Boone she was sixteen and so skinny that the whole of her beanpole body fit neatly inside the circle of shade cast by her hat. VQR GalleryJordan W. LintChris Ware
The sixth installment of Ware’s “serialized pictorial fiction.” |
BlogEight Questions for J. Malcolm GarciaCarianne King
An interview with the author of Call of the Narcocorrido, which appears in our current issue. He spent three weeks shadowing journalists in Juárez as they rushed from narco-murder to narco-murder in the homicide capital of the world. Recent BooksThis Gravity-Ridden WorldGiles Harvey
Conquest of the Useless, the altogether appropriate title given to the journals Werner Herzog kept while making his most famous film in the Peruvian rainforest, weighs in at just over three hundred pages. 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. |
