Summer 2012

Volume 88, Number 3

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Editor's Desk

Donovan Webster — Burma Exhales

Essay

John Dramani Mahama — My First Coup d'Etat
Mark Jenkins and Corey Rich — China's Little Yosemite
Chuck Leavell and Andrew Kornylak — Forty Acres and a Year
Janna Malamud Smith — Ruthlessness and Art-Making
Jason Motlagh — Irrawaddy Daze
Delphine Schrank — Dissident Thunder
Willard Spiegelman — Kay Ryan's Delicate Strength
Donovan Webster — The Lady & The Generals
Elliott D. Woods — The Last Happy Skull
Robert Young Pelton and Jason Florio — The Black Zone

Fiction

Madison Smartt Bell — Red Stick
Edith Pearlman — Just So

Poetry

Karen An-hwei Lee — Elegy for Marlin and Prayer for My Octogenarian
Catherine Barnett — Chorus, Sweet Double, Talk-Talk: xix., and Providence
Traci Brimhall — The Hunger River
H.L. Hix — About the Lakeshore
William Logan — A Garret in Paris and For the Missing
Charlotte Matthews — The Greatest Show on Earth and The Year of Not Believing
Kathryn Starbuck — The Bed Sleeps with No One and Alone with Me
Jim Tilley — Remembrance Day, 11/11/11

Book Reviews

Michael Dirda — Fact & Fiction