Winter 2008

Winter 2008

War

Volume 84, Number 1

• 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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Botero’s Abu Ghraib

By Fernando Botero

I. Or, the Anchorite Who is Dying By Degrees

By Patricia Lockwood

If It Amounts to Torture

By Ted Genoways

II. Or, the Confessor Who Greens the Garden

By Patricia Lockwood

His Stupid Heart

By Marcela Valdes

Self-Immolation

By Jerzy M. Nowak

III. Or, the Illuminator Who Reads to Islanders

By Patricia Lockwood

I Make Myself Unimportant: A Symposium on the Life and Work of Ryszard Kapuściński

By Ted Genoways

Looking for the Road

By Breyten Breytenbach

Kubota Writes to José Arcadio Buendía

By Garrett Hongo

That Is All Of Me

By J. Malcolm Garcia

What Was Worst

By Werner Herzog

José Sanchez’s First Week in the Cell

By Stefi Weisburd

Letters from a Jilted Lover

By Asim Rafiqui

The Emperor’s Deathbed: An Exchange

By Lawrence Weschler, Salman Rushdie

Nocturne with a Dictator

By Oliver de la Paz

We Are Ready to Die

By Nicholas Schmidle

American Labasha

By Daniel Alarcon

Family Scene

By Jacques Prévert, Norman Shapiro

The Sledgehammer Argument of General Massu

By Jacques Prévert, Norman Shapiro

The Last Dead

By Drew Johnson

The Prisoner

By Craig Morgan Teicher

Bonsai

By Alejandro Zambra, Carolina De Robertis

The First Fire

By Craig Morgan Teicher

Raised by Wolves

By Craig Morgan Teicher

All the Country Will Be Shaking

By J. Malcolm Garcia

After the rabbi’s game repeating back

By Adam Kirsch

Ramadi Nights

By Neil Shea, Andrea Bruce

continental divide

By D.A. Powell

Trophy Town

By David J. Morris

The Blister

By George Witte

When the Clock Stops

By Floyd Skloot

Democracy is Not a Postcard

By Nicholas Schmidle

Dirge

By Elisabeth Murawski

Denis Johnson’s Higher Power

By Philip Connors

Art Born of the Need to Tell

By Daniel Heyman

Essays

Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah

By Alan Brody

Justice: Four Windows

By Jane Hirshfield

Poetry

The Poppy Fields of Afghanistan

By Albert Goldbarth

Empty Nest

By Lisa Russ Spaar

The Gothic silhouette and flying spire

By Adam Kirsch

Dante’s Folly

By William Logan

Criticism

Book Notes

Multimedia

Dead-Eye Comic

By Ross MacDonald

Jordan W. Lint, Installment #1

By Chris Ware

Author Profiles

Chris Ware

Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. He is currently serializing two new graphic novels in his ongoing periodical The ACME Novelty Library, the nineteenth issue o

Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is the author of six collections of poetry, including After (HarperCollins, 2006) and Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.