Built on Sand
photographs by Jason Larkin,July 2010
Egypt’s museums’ grandiose displays reveal and mold the identity of this most ancient of countries.
FEATURES
By Bread Alone
by J. Malcolm GarciaSome Pakistanis have begun blaming Afghan immigrants for bringing “their” war into Pakistan—one Afghan baker’s story of harassment, corruption, and exile.
INTERVIEWS
Between Riddle and Charm
Anna Ross interviews Marie PonsotThe acclaimed poet, just before her stroke, on oil, the oral supremacy of poetry, and (what else?) the end of the world.
POETRY
Victoria Kent
by Scott HightowerA few of the prison reforms / you wrestled into implementation // in Madrid, will take root / in the rest of the world
FICTION
Ears
by Teresa MilbrodtHaving four ears could be a sign of the Apocalypse. Or just good for selling a t-shirt.
ART
Fish-Work, Bering Sea
by Corey ArnoldA photographer chronicles his career as a commercial fisherman, a career he both romanticizes and loathes.
FROM THE BLOG
Danielle Ofri: Americans by Choice
29 July 2010 - “Somehow, it seems to have been forgotten that every American is or was an immigrant. Most of our grandparents and great-grandparents came here ‘illegally’ because immigrants were never particularly welcomed. But those generations of “Americans by Choice” built up our society and economy in a manner that has come to define America.”
David Bollier: Wikileaks, the War, and Accountability: Leaked Documents from the Afghanistan War Confirm Some Hard, Dismal Truths
29 July 2010 - “We can now see more clearly that it is not just government that practices deception and censorship to advance its political interests; the commercial press is complicit in its own way, for its own reasons.”
Erica Wright: On Adultery or Why Merwin is the Right Man for the Job
28 July 2010 - A humiliating night becomes life altering as Wright experiences Merwin’s “negative capability” for the first time.
Norman Solomon: State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War
28 July 2010 - In the current stage of denial, administration spinners are acutely eager to distinguish Obama’s “new policy” from events as recent as last year—as though we’re supposed to believe it’s no longer the case that the Taliban is “gaining strength.”
Chuck Collins: A Long-Ago Meeting With The Remarkable Shirley Sherrod
27 July 2010 - Lost in the chatter about the firing of Shirley Sherrod and subsequent USDA apology is the unquestionable fact that she had devoted her entire life to economic justice.