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• Art Spiegelman’s first installment of his new work “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!”
• Tony Kushner's short play “A Prayer for New York,” the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s response to 9/11.
• Lawrence Weschler profiles the artist Vincent Desiderio.
• A trio of dispatches from Southeast Asia: Lindsley Cameron on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tom Bissell and Morgan Meis on the 30th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, and Erik Campbell on living and writing in the jungles of Papua, Indonesia.
• Three tales of suspense by by Joyce Carol Oates, Alan Heathcock, and R.T. Smith.
• Essays by Pauline W. Chen, Stanly Plumly, and Steve Almond.
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• An exclusive excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s new novel
• Gabriel García Márquez reminisces about Rome and Paris in the ’50s
• A new, unpublished short story by Isabel Allende
• New poems by Charles Simic, Natasha Trethewey, Rodney Jones, and Carl Phillips
• Adam Clymer on what went wrong in the 2004 Election
• Tom Bissell travels north to the High Canadian Arctic
• Sven Birkerts on Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift
• Gary Gallagher on recent biographies of Ulysses S. Grant
• New fiction by Joanna Hershon, Brock Clarke, and Jennie Rathbun
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Special Issue: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass at 150
• Diane Ackerman on Whitman's birthplace
• Robert Creeley on Whitman in old age
• Mark Doty on Whitman's sexuality
• Galway Kinnell on Whitman's powers of imagination
• Additional essays by Meena Alexander, David Baker, David Haven Blake, Rafael Campo, Ed Folsom, Sam Hamill, Jane Hirshfield, William Logan, Natasha Trethewey, and Charles Wright
• Poems by Robert Bly and Gregory Orr
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• Robert Bly and James Wright: A Correspondence
• A Tribute to Carol Shields by Margaret Atwood
• Shields's last short story, “Segue”
• George Garrett on writing Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
• Sven Birkerts on Max Frisch’s Montauk
• Stephen Boykewich reports from Moscow on Russia after Beslan
• Previously unpublished photos of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
• Joyce Carol Oates's story of suspense, “So Help Me God”
• New poems by Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, and Mark Doty
• Louis D. Rubin, Jr., on recent biographies of Teddy Roosevelt |
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• Salman Rushdie decries the Ministry of False Alarms
• Art Spiegelman on witnessing the collapse of the WTC
• Sarah P. Rubinstein remembers her brother, killed on 9/11
• Joseph Margulies on how he helped end detentions at Guantánamo
• Jenny S. Martinez on defending “enemy combatant” José Padilla
• Christopher Merrill on the role of literature post-9/11
• David Moats on why he favors allowing gay marriage
• Francine Prose on the USA PATRIOT Act
• Sanford Pinsker on American politics and the new populism
• Jeffrey Meyers on T. E. Lawrence’s unlearned lessons in Iraq
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Special Issue: Fiction's New Luminaries
• New stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, Steve Almond, Dean Bakopoulos, Tom Bissell, Brock Clarke, Peter Ho Davies, Merrill Feitell, Helon Habila, Jennifer Haigh, Cristina Henríquez, John McNally, Thisbe Nissen, Daniel Stolar, and Mika Tanner
• “Pinch Me; or, How Stephen King Changed My Life” by Ron McLarty |
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• Capturing Saddam by Carleton J. Phillips
• Inside Saddam’s Spider Hole by Chris Hondros
• Curfew: Afghanistan, 2002 by J. Malcolm Garcia
• Debating Evolution in the Age of DNA by Edward J. Larson
• Credentialing vs. Education by Jane Jacobs
• Fiction by Michael Chabon, E. L. Doctorow, Stuart Dybek, and John McNally
• Poetry by Julianna Baggott, David Barber, Robert Bly, Rafael Campo, Debora Greger, William Kloefkorn, William Logan, Patrick Phillips, Greg Rappleye, David Roderick, Barry Sternlieb, Natasha Trethewey, Charles Wright, C. Dale Young, and Adam Zagajewski |
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• The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
• Roger Wilkins and Mary Zwiep argue affirmative action
• Kevin Young’s poems for collages by Romare Bearden
• Memoirs by Sebastian Matthews and Reuel K. Wilson
• Dispatch from Kyrgyzstan by Simone Poirier-Bures
• Fiction by Steve Almond, Aimee Phan, and R. T. Smith
• Poetry by Betty Adcock, David Baker, Quan Barry, Linda Bierds, Rebecca Black, Debra Bruce, Peter Cooley, Mekeel McBride, Maurice Manning, William Matthews, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alan Shapiro
• Translations by Aliki Barnstone and Michael Collier |
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• Staige D. Blackford (1931–2003) by George Garrett
• The Religion of James Monroe by David L. Holmes
• Fighting for Lincoln's Soul by Michael Nelson
• Painted Ladies of Yale by Alexander Burnham
• Fiction by Philip Gould, John J. Clayton, Angela Pneuman
• Poetry by Marvin Bell, Anna George Meek, Jeffrey Levine, Floyd Skloot, Angie Hogan, Natasha Sajé, Jay Parini, Sarah Gorham, Eve Grubin |
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• Quarterlies and the Future of Reading by George Core
• A Summoning of Place by George Garrett
• Vive L'Indifférence! by Jesse Bier
• Fiction by Deborah Prum, Murray Dunlap, Robert Hildt
• Poetry by John Balaban, Deborah Slicer, Charles Harper Webb, Floyd Skloot, Sharon Leiter, Peter Pereira, Hank Lazer |
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