Spring 2010

Volume 86/2

• J. Malcolm Garcia on the Afghan elections • Neil Shea on the war in winter • Joe Sacco on North African refugees in Malta • Chris Hondros on the earthquake in Haiti • Dimiter Kenarov on Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo • Fiction by Paul Theroux • Poetry by Albert Goldbarth, C.K. Williams, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Spring 2010

Volume 86, Number 2

Print: $14.00

Digital download: $14.00

Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Bombing at Bala Baluk

By Jason Motlagh

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Unwanted, Part 2

By Joe Sacco

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Graveyard of Empires: Nine Months on the Ground in Obama’s Afghanistan

By Ted Genoways

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Dark Refusals: The Poetry of Tadeusz Rozewicz

By Edward Hirsch

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Workshopping the Next Generation of American War Literature

By Michael David Lukas

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

An Elliptical Essay on Violence

By Edward Falco

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Haiti, Fallen

By Chris Hondros

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Unapproachable Light

By Dimiter Kenarov

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Understanding Mathilda

By Matthew Shaer

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2010

There Is No Place That Does Not See You

By Craig Morgan Teicher

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Book Notes

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Minor Watt

By Paul Theroux

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Mercy

By Patrick Phillips

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Viking 1

By Brian Turner

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

True Void

By Albert Goldbarth

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Sarajevo

By Peter Balakian

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Smallish

By Albert Goldbarth

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Jew on Bridge

By C. K. Williams

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Dark Bird

By Kevin Hart

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Survivor

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Grandmother, Charlottesville

By Kevin Hart

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Story of Old Women

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish

By Erika Meitner

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Autumnal

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Ballard Locks

By Paisley Rekdal

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

As You’re Leaving

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Dos Gardenias Para Ti

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

My Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

a finger to the lips

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2010

Butcher’s Booths

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

Easter in Gaza

By Elliott D. Woods

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful

By J. Malcolm Garcia

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

Total War

By Louie Palu

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Path to Yaghestan

By Elliott D. Woods

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Talking Season

By Neil Shea

/ ISSUE: Spring 2010

The Granai Village Massacre

By Guy Smallman

Contributor Profiles

Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is the author of eight books of poems, most recently The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2010).

Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux’s novels include The Vanishing Point (Mariner/Harper Collins, 2025), from which “The Silent Woman” is excerpted; Burma Sahib (Mariner/Harper Collins, 2024); and The Bad Angel Brothers (Mariner/Harp