Fall 2010

Volume 86/4

Matthew Power on the lithium mines of Bolivia Delphine Schrank on an open-pit tin mine in the Congo Louie Palu on the hard rock mines of Canada J. Malcolm Garcia on the effects of lead mining in Kosovo Nathaniel Miller on the Berkeley Pit in Montana Fiction by Jennifer Haigh and Samanta Schweblin Poetry by Amy Beeder, Patrick Phillips, and Qin Xiaoyu

Fall 2010

Volume 86, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 2010 cover

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Audio

AUDIO / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Underground Giant: Life in the Hard Rock Mines of Quebec and Ontario

By Louie Palu

Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Mother of God, Child of Zeus

By Jessica Benko , Photography by Bear Guerra

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Digging Out

By Elliott D. Woods , Photography by Elliott D. Woods

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Here Everything is Poison

By J. Malcolm Garcia , Photography by Darren McCollester

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Jharia Burning

By Allison Joyce , Photography by Allison Joyce

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Pit

By Nathaniel Miller

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Father Copper

By Annie Murphy , Photography by Rodrigo Llano

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Solution: Bolivia’s Lithium Dreams

By Matthew Power , Photography by Fabio Cuttica

REPORTING / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Tin Fever

By Delphine Schrank , Photography by Mark Craemer

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Devil’s Tail: Reading From the Lives of Authors

By Robert Boyers

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Activist Novelist

By Jacob Silverman

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Triumph of Capitalism

By Brian Sholis

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Age of Inequality

By Oscar Villalon

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Favorite Son

By Jennifer Haigh

FICTION / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Digger

By Samanta Schweblin

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Tailing Dam of Baotou Steel

By Qin Xiaoyu

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Book of Lost Railroad Photographs

By Amy Beeder

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Man

By Patrick Phillips

POETRY / ISSUE: Fall 2010

Work-Clothes Quilt

By Patrick Phillips

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Fall 2010

The Price of the Paperless Revolution

By Ted Genoways

Contributor Profiles

Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh’s novel Mrs. Kimble (William Morrow, 2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction. Her second novel, Baker Towers, was published by Morrow in 2005.