Spring 2011

Spring 2011

Ruin & Rebirth

Volume 87, Number 2

• Elliott D. Woods on Cairo’s trash pickers
• Meera Subramanian on the collapse of India’s vulture population
• J. Malcolm Garcia on the aftereffects of the Balad burn pit
• Paul Reyes on Miami’s condo market
• Poetry by Kwame Dawes and Erika Meitner
• Fiction by Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Benjamin Percy

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Before the recent species collapse, vultures were a vital part of India's sanitation, cleaning carcasses and, as here, scavenging human remains left at the burning ghats on the banks of rivers. (Adam Woolfi TT / Corbis)

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Ami Vitale

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Can the world's fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?

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Editor’s Desk

The Rude Wasting of Old Time

By Ted Genoways

Reporting

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Ami Vitale

Essays

Squatter City

By Michael Eamonn Miller, Photography by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala

This is Not a Requiem for Detroit

By Erika Meitner, Photography by Ryan Spencer Reed

City of Dust, City of Stones

By Kwame Dawes, Photography by Andre Lambertson

Breathing In

By J. Malcolm Garcia, Photography by Nina Berman, Reynaldo Leal

Garbage City

By Elliott D. Woods, Photography by Elliott D. Woods

Vultures Rising

By Paul Reyes, Photography by Ellen Reyes

The Education of Hugo Chávez: Unraveling Venezuela’s Revolutionary Path

By Brian A. Nelson

Memoir

Coolie Women Are in Demand Here

By Gaiutra Bahadur

Fiction

Writs of Possession

By Benjamin Percy

Rancor

By Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Translated by Janet Hendrickson

Poetry

From Faith Love Stupidity

By Armando Uribe, Annie Murphy

Criticism

Her Silence, Her Voice

By Silvana Paternostro

Photography

China’s E-Waste City

By Chien-ming Chung, Photography by Chien-ming Chung

Author Profiles

Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2013). He has edited more than a dozen anthologies.

Meera Subramanian

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning independent journalist, author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis (PublicAffairs, 2015), and a contributing editor to Orion Magazine.