Fall 2010

Volume 86, Number 4

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Editor's Desk

Ted Genoways — The Price of the Paperless Revolution

Essay

Jessica Benko and Bear Guerra — Mother of God, Child of Zeus
J. Malcolm Garcia — Here Everything is Poison
Allison Joyce — Jharia Burning
Nathaniel Miller — The Pit
Annie Murphy — Father Copper
Louie Palu — The Underground Giant: Life in the Hard Rock Mines of Quebec and Ontario
Matthew Power — The Solution: Bolivia’s Lithium Dreams
Delphine Schrank — Tin Fever
Elliott D. Woods — Digging Out

Web Exclusive

Bruce Fort — The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1925–1935:
A “National Journal” in the New South

Articles

Robert Boyers — The Devil’s Tail: Reading From the Lives of Authors

Fiction

Jennifer Haigh — Favorite Son
Samanta Schweblin and Daniel Alarcón — The Digger

Poetry

Amy Beeder — The Book of Lost Railroad Photographs
Patrick Phillips — The Man and Work-Clothes Quilt
Qin Xiaoyu — Tailing Dam of Baotou Steel

Recent Books

Brian Sholis — The Triumph of Capitalism
Jacob Silverman — The Activist Novelist
Oscar Villalon — The Age of Inequality

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