An African Sermon
Douglas would think, much later, of questions he should have asked. He didn’t know, for example, how Mr. Sagatwa had left Rwanda, how he had come down to South Africa. But in that moment it didn’t seem to matter
Read MoreJuly/August 2004
Fiction by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Banana Yoshimoto, and Damon Galgut; poetry by Billy Collins, M. NourbeSe Philip, Di Brandt, and Marilyn Hacker; Bill Cameron argues that the unclarified legal status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is only hurting the cause of justice; Thaddeus Holownia photographs Walden Pond…
Summer Plum (Winter Version)
Iwas about seven years old, and it was summer. My mother was making squares for fellowship group at the church, and on the table there was an open bag of …
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The Art of the Bad Review
We need more book critics who are fearless—though that alone won’t do
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