• Anthony Ham on the Saharan town disappearing beneath the sand
• Kelly Hearn on Peru’s Tiananmen
• Matt Donovan on what remains from 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
 
 

• Tom Bissell looks for Judas in Hakeldama
• Peter Lagerquist visits Tel Avivi's Latrun fortress
• Christopher Merrill finds himself at gunpoint in Lebanon
• Adam Kirsch on Lionel Trilling and Allen Ginsberg
• Asim Rafiqui provides portraits of Gazans
• Chris Ware has the fifth installment of “Jordan W. Lint”
• Poetry from Carl Phillips, Mahmoud Darwish, and Tom Sleigh
 

• Ted Conover walks a thinning frozen river in the Himalayas
• Tipper Gore photographs a shrinking glacier in western Canada
• Paul Reyes hunts icebergs for profit in the North Atlantic
• Pat Joseph on the risks of genengineering a solution to global warming
• Dimiter Kenarov trails a serial killer in Macedonian
• Installment #4 of “Jordan W. Lint” by Chris Ware
• Lawrence Weschler on the art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes
• Poetry by Rita Dove and Jim Harrison

• Neil Shea retraces Castro's path to Revolution
• Lygia Navarro on mental illness and addiction in Cuba
• Paul Reyes returns to Cuba with his exiled father and uncle
• A symposium on the Life and Work of Mahmoud Darwish
• Fiction by Carolina De Robertis, Laleh Khadivi, and Vinnie Wilhelm
• Poetry by Michael Collier, Dave Lucas, Pablo Neruda, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, and R. A. Villanueva

• Elliott Woods on a suicide bombing in Iraq and its aftermath
• Joshua Casteel on his time as an Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib
• Mara Hvistendahl on China's gender imbalance
• Blake Bailey on John Cheever's childhood
• Another installment of "Jordan W. Lint" by Chris Ware
• Oscar Villalon on why football is America's new pastime
• Poetry by Ted Kooser and Albert Goldbarth
 

• Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey on Katrina and Gulfport
• Greg Orr on his 1965 Alabama kidnapping
• James Kirchick on the South African Afrikaner homeland
• Tom Sleigh on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria
• A portfolio of Palestinian and Israeli poetry
• On-the-ground reports from Iraq and Syria by David Enders and Daniel Alarcón.
• Short stories by up-and-coming authors Sana Krasikov, Nina McConigley, and Kanishk Tharoor.

Featuring superhero stories by Tom Bissell, George Singleton, and Scott Snyder. Also, Kwame Dawes on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, Bill Sizemore on the life and work of Pat Robertson, unpublished work from Ezra Pound, Chris Ware's latest installment of "Jordan W. Lint," poetry from Billy Collins, Ted Kooser and Charles Simic. And lots more from Glen Retief, Lawrence Weschler, William Logan, Melanie Rae Thon, Matthew Power, and many others.