• 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 Also, Kwame Dawes on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, Bill Sizemore on the life and work of Pat Robertson, unpublished work from Ezra Pound, Chris Ware's latest installment of "Jordan W. Lint," poetry from Billy Collins, Ted Kooser and Charles Simic.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.
 

• Special cover and feature by Chris Ware
• Neil Shea and David Morris on Ramadi
• Nicholas Schmidle and Malcom Garcia on Kabul
• Paintings by Daniel Heyman and Fernando Botero
• Poetry by William Logan and Albert Goldbarth
• Essays by Roberto Bolaño and Jane Hirshfield
• Floyd Skloot on writing
• Werner Herzog and Salman Rushdie on Ryszard Kapuściński

A Special Issue on South America in the 21st Century
• Featuring essays by Daniel Alarcón, Julio Villanueva Chang, Toño Angulo Daneri, Kelly Hearn, J. Malcolm Garcia, Pat Joseph, Brian A. Nelson, Daniel Titinger, and Gabriela Wiener; poetry by Marjorie Agosin and Odi Gonzales; fiction by Roberto Bolaño and Santiago Roncagliolo; and art & photography by Liniers, Ana de Orbegoso, Juan Manuel Echavarria, and Hwa Goh

• Framing the War: Photo-essays from Iraq by Carolyn Cole, Ashley Gilbertson, and Chris Hondros
• Matt Power on the life and death of journalist Brad Will in Oaxaca
• The poetry of Jirí Orten, introduced by Edward Hirsch
• Fiction by Mario Vargas Llosa, Beena Kamlani, John McNally, and Brendan Mathews
• Poetry by Marianne Boruch, Alberto Ríos, and Charles Wright
• Criticism: Adam Kirsch on Yeats, Pound, and Auden; William Logan on Thomas Pynchon; and Michael Collier on Louis Bogan

• Drawing the Line: Writings on the Border by Philip Caputo, Mark Ehrman, Reynaldo Leal, Charles Rappleye, and Oscar Villalon.
• A Symposium on Mark Twain, featuring an unpublished work introduced by Ed Folsom and Jerome Loving, and David Caplan on Twain's patriotism.
• Fiction by Nadine Gordimer, Helon Habila, and R. T. Smith.
• Essays by Erik Campbell, Pauline W. Chen, Morgan Meis, David J. Morris, and Nicholas Schmidle.
• Poetry by Robert Olen Butler, Robin Ekiss, Alessandra Lynch, Gregory Orr, Alberto Ríos, Tom Sleigh, and Luis Alberto Urrea.