The Horn's Dilemma—coming soon!

The Soviet Ghost: Twenty Years After the Collapse
• Maria P. Vassileva on Chernobyl's resurrection
• Steve Featherstone on loose nukes in Ukraine
• Ed Ou on a nuclear test site in Kazakhstan
• Jason Motlagh on the Soviet hangover in Belarus
• Dimiter Kenarov on getting arrested by the KGB
• Nadia Shira Cohen on the return of the Aral Sea
• Fiction by Alan Heathcock, Kseniya Melnik, and Maggie Shipstead

Our Threatened Fisheries
• Donovan Webster on Iceland cod fishing
• Jesse Dukes on lobster fishing in Maine
• Bart DiFiore on the Atlantic bluefin tuna
• Ruxandra Guidi on rising sea levels
• Annie Murphy on the salmon farms of Patagonia
• Lawrence Weschler on Margaret Wertheim's crocheted coral reefs

Ruin & Rebirth
• Elliott D. Woods on Cairo's trash pickers
• Meera Subramanian on the collapse of India's vulture population
• J. Malcolm Garcia on the aftereffects of the Balad burn pit
• Paul Reyes on Miami's condo market
• Poetry by Kwame Dawes and Erika Meitner
• Fiction by Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Benjamin Percy

LOOKbetween
A Special Issue of Emerging Photographers
Featuring Christopher Capozziello, Maisie Crow, Kevin German, Andrea Gjestvang, Tim Hussin, Ian Nichols, Thomas P. Peschak, Joe Riis, Gabriele Stabile, Susan Worsham

• Matthew Power on the lithium mines of Bolivia
• Delphine Schrank on an open-pit tin mine in the Congo
• Louie Palu on the hard rock mines of Canada
• J. Malcolm Garcia on the effects of lead mining in Kosovo
• Nathaniel Miller on the Berkeley Pit in Montana
• Fiction by Jennifer Haigh and Samanta Schweblin
• Poetry by Amy Beeder, Patrick Phillips, and Qin Xiaoyu

• A Special Portfolio of Iranian Writers
• Anthony Ham on the town disappearing into the Sahara
• Kelly Hearn on Peru’s Tiananmen
• Matt Donovan on the Trinity nuclear bomb test
• Fiction by William Malatinsky
• Poetry by Adrienne Rich, William Kloefkorn, and Temple Cone

• J. Malcolm Garcia on the Afghan elections
• Neil Shea on the war in winter
• Joe Sacco on North African refugees in Malta
• Chris Hondros on the earthquake in Haiti
• Dimiter Kenarov on Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo
• Fiction by Paul Theroux
• Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, C.K. Williams, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa

A Special Issue on Northern Africa
• Joe Sacco on North African refugees in Malta
• Anthony Ham on the vanishing elephants of Mali
• Jori Lewis on attempts to save Senegal’s threatened fisheries
• Eric Calderwood on the blind plumber of Tetouan in Morocco
• Dana Romanoff on the wives of God in Ghana
• Nicholas Schmidle on Somali suicide bombers from Minneapolis
• Fiction by Leila Aboulela, Helon Habila, and Nadifa Mohamed

• J. Malcom Garcia rides with a crime scene photographer in Juárez
• Simon Maxwell Apter follows a drug mule trying to go straight
• Natasha Trethewey & Joshua Cogan on Gulfport, Mississippi
• Paul Reyes on a movement to reclaim foreclosed houses in Miami
• Installment #6 of “Jordan W. Lint” by Chris Ware
• Poetry by Bruce Bond, CJ Evans, and Thorpe Moeckel