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| Featuring superhero stories by Tom Bissell, George Singleton, and Scott Snyder. Also, Kwame Dawes on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, Bill Sizemore on the life and work of Pat Robertson, unpublished work from Ezra Pound, Chris Ware's latest installment of "Jordan W. Lint," poetry from Billy Collins, Ted Kooser and Charles Simic. And lots more from Glen Retief, Lawrence Weschler, William Logan, Melanie Rae Thon, Matthew Power, and many others. |
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• Special cover and feature by Chris Ware
• Neil Shea and David Morris on Ramadi
• Nicholas Schmidle and Malcom Garcia on Kabul
• Paintings by Daniel Heyman and Fernando Botero
• Poetry by William Logan and Albert Goldbarth
• Essays by Roberto Bolaño and Jane Hirshfield
• Floyd Skloot on writing
• Werner Herzog and Salman Rushdie on Ryszard Kapuściński
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A Special Issue on South America in the 21st Century
• Featuring essays by Daniel Alarcón, Julio Villanueva Chang, Toño Angulo Daneri, Kelly Hearn, J. Malcolm Garcia, Pat Joseph, Brian A. Nelson, Daniel Titinger, and Gabriela Wiener; poetry by Marjorie Agosin and Odi Gonzales; fiction by Roberto Bolaño and Santiago Roncagliolo; and art & photography by Liniers, Ana de Orbegoso, Juan Manuel Echavarria, and Hwa Goh
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• Framing the War: Photo-essays from Iraq by Carolyn Cole, Ashley Gilbertson, and Chris Hondros
• Matt Power on the life and death of journalist Brad Will in Oaxaca
• The poetry of Jirí Orten, introduced by Edward Hirsch
• Fiction by Mario Vargas Llosa, Beena Kamlani, John McNally, and Brendan Mathews
• Poetry by Marianne Boruch, Alberto Ríos, and Charles Wright
• Criticism: Adam Kirsch on Yeats, Pound, and Auden; William Logan on Thomas Pynchon; and Michael Collier on Louis Bogan
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• Drawing the Line: Writings on the Border by Philip Caputo, Mark Ehrman, Reynaldo Leal, Charles Rappleye, and Oscar Villalon.
• A Symposium on Mark Twain, featuring an unpublished work introduced by Ed Folsom and Jerome Loving, and David Caplan on Twain's patriotism.
• Fiction by Nadine Gordimer, Helon Habila, and R. T. Smith.
• Essays by Erik Campbell, Pauline W. Chen, Morgan Meis, David J. Morris, and Nicholas Schmidle.
• Poetry by Robert Olen Butler, Robin Ekiss, Alessandra Lynch, Gregory Orr, Alberto Ríos, Tom Sleigh, and Luis Alberto Urrea. |
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A special portfolio on Oil in Africa:
• John Ghazvinian on the black market for stolen oil in Nigeria
• Chris Hondros photographs the Oshie gas flare
• Nicholas Shaxson on Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang
• J. Malcolm Garcia on the humanitarian crisis in Chad
• New work by Art Spiegelman, Charles Burns, Pauline Chen, Walter Mosley, and J. Hoberman
• Fiction by Daniel Alarcón and Peter Nadas
• Poetry by Debra Bruce, Miriam Levine, Glyn Maxwell, Paisley Rekdal, Alan Shapiro, and C. Dale Young. |
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• An exclusive excerpt from Michael Chabon’s forthcoming novel The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
• A new installment of Art Spiegelman’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!”
• Tony Kushner’s play “But the Giraffe!”
• “War Thoughts at Home,” an unpublished poem by Robert Frost with commentary by Glyn Maxwell and Robert Stilling.
• A dispatch from East Timor by Norman Ng.
• E. L. Doctorow on Edgar Allan Poe, David Kirby on Rabelais and Montaigne, Rick Barot on Rilke, and Dave Lucas on Mark Strand.
• Fiction by Dean Bakopoulos and Dan Chaon. |
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• James Ellroy on the film version of his novel The Black Dahlia.
• A story from Alice Munro’s new collection coming out this fall.
• Appreciations of Alice Munro by Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, and others.
• Charles Simic, David Rieff, and Dimiter Kenarov on the Balkans in the wake of Slobodan Miloševic.
• Larry Sabato proposes a new way to elect our President.
• The Case Against Robert D. Kaplan by Tom Bissell.
• New poetry by Garrett Hongo, Glyn Maxwell, and recent Pulitzer Prize–winner Claudia Emerson.
• Part 2 of Marjane Satrapi’s “Chicken with Plums.” |
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• “Why Darwin is Still Right (and Intelligent Design is Wrong)”: A special portfolio on Darwin, evolution, and intelligent design with essays by Niles Eldredge, Michael Ruse, Thomas Eisner, and Robert M. Sapolsky, and an excerpt from David Quammen’s forthcoming book The Reluctant Mr. Darwin.
• A symposium on Adrienne Rich, including new work by her, and appreciations by Marilyn Hacker, Mark Nowak, Hugh Seidman, Roberto Tejada, Jean Valentine, and Craig Werner.
• An excerpt from Marjane Satrapi’s forthcoming graphic novel Chicken with Plums.
• New fiction by Francine Prose, Kevin A. González, and Stephen Schottenfeld. |
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• Featuring a special portfolio on AIDS in Africa with reports by Helen Epstein, Philip Alcabes, and Jann Turner, and photo essays by Charter Weeks and Gideon Mendel.
• Another installment of Art Spiegelman’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!”
• Lawrence Weschler on the graphics of the Solidarity Movement.
• Helon Habila on African novelist Dambudzo Marechera.
• Fiction by Steve Almond, Deborah Eisenberg, John McNally, and Binyavanga Wainaina.
• Poetry by Billy Collins, Marilyn Hacker, and Charles Wright. |
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