Fall 2014

Volume 90/4

New Voices in Fiction Five Photographers to Watch Mark Edmundson on his paint-factory education Stephen Goodwin on a promising young writer’s rise and fall Philip Kennicott on the depiction of gay males in twentieth-century literature Dax-Devlon Ross on the role of race in jury selection in North Carolina Joshua Hersh on Syria’s forsaken refugee camp Roxane Gay on the price of black ambition Poetry by David Baker, F. Douglas Brown, Jehanne Dubrow, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Maggie Smith Criticism by Rebecca Onion, Cynthia Shearer, and Lisa Russ Spaar

Fall 2014

Volume 90, Number 4

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Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Bias in the Box

By Dax-Devlon Ross , Photography by Travis Dove

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2014

The Lessons of Atmeh

By Joshua Hersh , Illustrations by Danijel Žeželj

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Fall 2014

The Price of Black Ambition

By Roxane Gay

Memoir

MEMOIR / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Best, Tom

By Stephen Goodwin , Illustrations by Jen Renninger

MEMOIR / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Smuggler

By Philip Kennicott

MEMOIR / ISSUE: Fall 2014

A Paint-Factory Education

By Mark Edmundson

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2014

On Letters of Note

By Rebecca Onion

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Richard Ford and the Course of American Empire

By Cynthia Shearer

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Breaking Bad

By Lisa Russ Spaar

Photography

PHOTOGRAPHY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Standing Apart

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2014

What Liesel Thinks of Horses

By Emily Ruskovich

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Now, Let’s Consider This Case

By Onyinye Ihezukwu

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Kitty Hawk

By Brendan McKennedy

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2014

The Summer of Ice Cream

By Tope Folarin

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Serve-and-Volley, Near Vichy

By Greg Jackson

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Hard Uncles

By F. Douglas Brown

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Or

By David Baker

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

The Hawk-Kite

By Maggie Smith

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Midwife

By Maggie Smith

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Blue Shift

By David Baker

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Plácido Domingo on the Northbound Train

By Jehanne Dubrow

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Dinner with Kathleen Battle

By Jehanne Dubrow

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

The End Has Not Yet Passed Over Us

By Jacques J. Rancourt

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2014

History

By Jacques J. Rancourt

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Portrait of the Artist

By W. Ralph Eubanks

Talisman

TALISMAN / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Treasure Box

By David Leavitt

Amateur Hour

AMATEUR HOUR / ISSUE: Fall 2014

If You Print It, They Will Come

By Jack Hitt

Fine Distinctions

FINE DISTINCTIONS / ISSUE: Fall 2014

Talent vs. Genius

By Gregory McNamee

Mapping

MAPPING / ISSUE: Fall 2014

The Flight of Syrian Refugees

By Haisam Hussein

/ ISSUE: Fall 2014

New Voices in Fiction

Contributor Profiles

Joshua Hersh

Joshua Hersh is a journalist who has covered the Middle East since 2009. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the Huffington Post, among other publications.

Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is the author of several books, including Difficult Women (Grove, 2017); the memoir Hunger (Harper Collins, 2017); and the essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, 2014), the title essay of w

Dax-Devlon Ross

Dax-Devlon Ross is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Make Me Believe (Outside the Box, 2011) and Beat of a Different Drum (Hyperion, 2005).