Spring 2011

Volume 87, Number 2

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Editor's Desk

Ted Genoways — The Rude Wasting of Old Time

Essay

Gaiutra Bahadur — Coolie Women Are in Demand Here
J. Malcolm Garcia and Nina Berman — Breathing In
Michael Eamonn Miller — Squatter City
Brian A. Nelson — The Education of Hugo Chávez: Unraveling Venezuela’s Revolutionary Path
Paul Reyes — Vultures Rising
Meera Subramanian and Ami Vitale — India’s Vanishing Vultures
Elliott D. Woods — Garbage City

VQR Gallery

Chien-ming Chung — China’s E-Waste City

Fiction

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Janet Hendrickson — Rancor
Benjamin Percy — Writs of Possession

Poetry

Kwame Dawes and Andre Lambertson — City of Dust, City of Stones
Erika Meitner and Ryan Spencer Reed — This is Not a Requiem for Detroit
Armando Uribe and Annie Murphy — From Faith Love Stupidity

Recent Books

Silvana Paternostro — Her Silence, Her Voice