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Summer 2012

Summer 2012

Burma Exhales

Volume 88, Number 3

Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy may have pushed Burma from an isolated nation to a potential partner to the rest of the world. Original reporting and photojournalism offer insight into pro-democracy activists, rebel camps, and ruling generals.

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Children play ball on a bamboo raft along the Mandalay quai. Lashed together upriver, the makeshift rafts are floated down to the boomtown and used as construction scaffolding. Photo by Jason Motlagh.

Irrawaddy Daze

By Jason Motlagh

A trip on a barge down Burma's river highway

Editor’s Desk

Burma Exhales

By Donovan Webster

Reporting

Irrawaddy Daze

By Jason Motlagh

The Black Zone

By Robert Young Pelton, Photography by Jason Florio

Dissident Thunder

By Delphine Schrank

Essays

The Last Happy Skull

By Elliott D. Woods

Ruthlessness and Art-Making

By Janna Malamud Smith

Kay Ryan’s Delicate Strength

By Willard Spiegelman

China’s Little Yosemite

By Mark Jenkins, Photography by Corey Rich, Rebecca Caldwell

Forty Acres and a Year

By Chuck Leavell, Photography by Andrew Kornylak

The Lady & The Generals

By Donovan Webster

Memoir

My First Coup d’Etat

By John Dramani Mahama

Fiction

Red Stick

By Madison Smartt Bell

Just So

By Edith Pearlman

Poetry

The Greatest Show on Earth

By Charlotte Matthews

The Year of Not Believing

By Charlotte Matthews

The Hunger River

By Traci Brimhall

A Garret in Paris

By William Logan

For the Missing

By William Logan

The Bed Sleeps with No One

By Kathryn Starbuck

Alone with Me

By Kathryn Starbuck

Chorus

By Catherine Barnett

Sweet Double, Talk-Talk: xix.

By Catherine Barnett

Providence

By Catherine Barnett

Elegy for Marlin

By Karen An-hwei Lee

Prayer for My Octogenarian

By Karen An-hwei Lee

Remembrance Day, 11/11/11

By Jim Tilley

About the Lakeshore

By H.L. Hix

Criticism

Fact & Fiction

By Michael Dirda

Author Profiles

Delphine Schrank

Delphine Schrank is a contributing editor to VQR and The Washington Post’s former correspondent in Burma. She is currently writing a book, The Rebel of Rangoon.