• 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
 
 

• 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.