July 2009

In My Place

Fatima Bhutto, Pakistan’s dynasty-bashing heir apparent, discusses how Obama and corruption legitimize the Taliban, her work to include women in Pakistani politics, and why she will never run for office (it’s not why you think).

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Features

Intelligence Without Design
by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
July 2009 - By bridging aspects of intelligent design with evolution in a new approach they call “possibilism,” the authors probably haven’t solved the American culture wars. But they might have.
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Interview

On the Beauty of Violence
An interview with Katherine Dunn
June 2009 - On the twentieth anniversary of Geek Love, Dunn discusses her new book, the cultural value of boxing, and why some sports are superior to the arts.
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Good Fences
by Ned Stuckey-French
July 2009 - While building a tree house with his father, the author at twelve begins to understand the politics at play in the backyards of his suburban neighborhood.
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Going Too Far
An interview with Michela Wrong
June 2009 - The longtime Africa correspondent discusses the Kenyan whistleblower who risked his life to end corruption, why she rejects Dambisa Moyo’s thesis about aid and democracy, and how she learned to love Paul Wolfowitz.
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Poetry

Requiem for the Orchard
by Oliver de la Paz
July 2009 - Our hands were/ the real language and we hit each other with closed fists/ just to unhinge the details.
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Fiction

The Last Geronimo
by Laren Stover
July 2009 - The monkey shrieks and runs across the table, scattering purchase orders. They have just finished the “Fancy Furry Friends” trade show in Las Vegas where the monkey dutifully twirled a tiny baton in a beguiling azure tulle and sequined gown.
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Romania. A Post-history Hysteria
by Chris Tanasescu translated from the Romanian by David Baker and the author
June 2009 - ...fir on a barren rock-sharp wall, the kind / the shepherds around here talk and sing to / before felling when someone young and single dies.
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Sarverville Remains
by Josh Weil
June 2009 - This ain’t a novel, Mister Podawalski. There ain’t no editor like there was for what Sam writ from his mountain. There is just the Lord checking his notes.
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