Editor's Desk

• Daniel Alarcón and Ted Genoways — South America in the 21st Century

Essay

• Daniel Alarcón — The Very Edge of the World
• Toño Angulo Daneri — Aicuña Is Not an Albino Town
• J. Malcolm Garcia — The White Train
• Kelly Hearn — The Last Commons: Drilling in the Peruvian Amazon
• Pat Joseph — Soy in the Amazon
• Brian A. Nelson — One Crowded Hour
• Phillip Robertson — The Octopus in the Cathedral of Salt
• Daniel Titinger — Kicking the Ball to Holland
• Julio Villanueva Chang — Through the Eyes of a Blind Mayor
• Gabriela Wiener — Trans: A Love Story

Web Exclusive

• Kristina Cordero — The Biggest Little Mormon Country in the World
• Juan Pablo Meneses — A Village Connected to the World
• Annie Murphy — Past Tomorrow: A Letter From Bolivia
• Henry Nicholls — On George's Island
• Edmundo Paz Soldán — Santa Cruz: Bolivia's "Other Country"
• Santiago Roncagliolo — The Boxer with Perfect Ears
• Sergio Vilela — The Owners of Machu Picchu

VQR Gallery

• Ana de Orbegoso and Odi Gonzales — Urban Virgins
• Juan Manuel Echavarría — Death and the River
• Hwa Goh — The Islands of Titicaca: Portraits of Inca Descendants
• Liniers   — The True Adventures of Liniers: The South

Fiction

• Roberto Bolaño — from Nazi Literature in the Americas
• Santiago Roncagliolo — Internal Affairs

Poetry

• Marjorie Agosín — You, The Mothers of Exile, Scent of Chile at Daybreak, Nothing Was Known, and The Empty House