Rattle and Hum
Hello, Baghdad! A Kurdish singer rocks Iraq
Read MoreJanuary/February 2009
Andrew Westoll ventures into La Negra mine in Bolivia’s infamous Cerro Rico mountain; Nora Underwood studies urban vertical farming; Robert Hough meets former tobacco farmers who’ve started cultivating ginseng; Pasha Malla writes a screenplay for a hypothetical “film for would-be immigrants”; fiction by Goran Simic…
Smooth Talk
From feedlots to noble rot: vines and wineries in Kings Country, Nova Scotia
Read MoreA Film for Would-Be Immigrants
“We fade into a blistering sun… which detonates in a BLOOD EXPLOSION”
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Dream of the Last Shaker
We stream into the meetinghouse through two doors like twin cords in the same braid. I love the men, all of them lined up like God’s long finger. The sun …
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Two Fables
A DIVIDED MAN For twenty years in a row the mechanic Tito from the town of Vlasenica in Bosnia had been named the best worker in Goose Feathers factory. Then …
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“Coca Si, Cocaina No”
The struggle to legitmize the coca leaf
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