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Now when I get personal
I have only one thing to say
(a dead gay once told me,

He was in a poem once, alive 
at the beginning, dead by the middle, 
haunting me at the end.

Bangladesh’s ready-​made garment (RMG) industry has been the sole force behind the country’s rapid industrialization.

Oh, obstreperous one, ornery outside of ordinary
protocols; paramilitary probie par 

excellence: Every evidence
you yield yells. 

In 2006, photographer Gina LeVay began her odyssey into the Spanish-​speaking world of toreras—​female matadors. “A lot of them have gotten gored, injured, and they just get up and want to do it again. They’re fearless.”

The all-​time peak for cotton farming in Mississippi was 1930, when more than 4 million acres were grown. In 2009, barely 300,000 acres were planted statewide. Mississippi has transformed from the Land of Cotton to the Land of Soybeans and...