Spring 2010

Volume 86/2

• J. Malcolm Garcia on the Afghan elections • Neil Shea on the war in winter • Joe Sacco on North African refugees in Malta • Chris Hondros on the earthquake in Haiti • Dimiter Kenarov on Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo • Fiction by Paul Theroux • Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, C.K. Williams, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Spring 2010

Volume 86, Number 2

Print: $14.00

Digital download: $14.00

Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Bombing at Bala Baluk

By Jason Motlagh

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Unwanted, Part 2

By Joe Sacco

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

An Elliptical Essay on Violence

By Edward Falco

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Haiti, Fallen

By Chris Hondros

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Unapproachable Light

By Dimiter Kenarov

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Graveyard of Empires: Nine Months on the Ground in Obama’s Afghanistan

By Ted Genoways

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Dark Refusals: The Poetry of Tadeusz Rozewicz

By Edward Hirsch

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Workshopping the Next Generation of American War Literature

By Michael David Lukas

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Understanding Mathilda

By Matthew Shaer

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2010

There Is No Place That Does Not See You

By Craig Morgan Teicher

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Book Notes

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Minor Watt

By Paul Theroux

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Mercy

By Patrick Phillips

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Viking 1

By Brian Turner

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

True Void

By Albert Goldbarth

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Sarajevo

By Peter Balakian

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Smallish

By Albert Goldbarth

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Jew on Bridge

By C. K. Williams

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Dark Bird

By Kevin Hart

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Survivor

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Grandmother, Charlottesville

By Kevin Hart

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Story of Old Women

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish

By Erika Meitner

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Autumnal

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Ballard Locks

By Paisley Rekdal

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

As You’re Leaving

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Dos Gardenias Para Ti

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

My Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

a finger to the lips

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Butcher’s Booths

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

Easter in Gaza

By Elliott D. Woods

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful

By J. Malcolm Garcia

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

Total War

By Louie Palu

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Path to Yaghestan

By Elliott D. Woods

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Talking Season

By Neil Shea

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Granai Village Massacre

By Guy Smallman

Contributor Profiles

Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is the author of eight books of poems, most recently The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2010).

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux is the author of over forty books, including the nonfiction works The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Riding the Iron Rooster, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. His novels include B