Winter 2007

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.