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ESSAYS / Spring 2011

City of Dust, City of Stones

By Kwame Dawes ,  Photography by Andre Lambertson
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ESSAYS / Summer 2011

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

By Lawrence Weschler
ESSAYS / Summer 2012

The Lady & The Generals

By Donovan Webster
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ESSAYS / Fall 2011

A Monument to Forgetting

By Morgan Meis
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ESSAYS / Fall 2011

My Life as a Foreign Country

By Brian Turner
Sherifullah, eleven, and Abdel Basit, eight, stand on one of the upper floors of the Russian Palace of Culture, which was heavily shelled during the mujahidin civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal. Until recently, the bombed out buildings sheltered homeless Afghans and heroin addicts. Efforts by the Russian government to rehabilitate the cultural center are underway.
ESSAYS / Fall 2011

All That Remains

By Elliott D. Woods
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ESSAYS / Fall 2011

The Lovely Sea

Photography by Jason Motlagh
ESSAYS / Fall 2011

A Threat to Public Order
ESSAYS / Fall 2011

The Resurrection
ESSAYS / Spring 2011

This is Not a Requiem for Detroit

By Erika Meitner ,  Photography by Ryan Spencer Reed
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