Spring 2011

Volume 87/2

• Elliott D. Woods on Cairo’s trash pickers • Meera Subramanian on the collapse of India’s vulture population • J. Malcolm Garcia on the aftereffects of the Balad burn pit • Paul Reyes on Miami’s condo market • Poetry by Kwame Dawes and Erika Meitner • Fiction by Fabrizio Mejía Madrid and Benjamin Percy

Spring 2011

Volume 87, Number 2

Print: $14.00

Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2011

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian

REPORTING / ISSUE: Spring 2011

India’s Vanishing Vultures

By Meera Subramanian , Photography by Ami Vitale

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

The Education of Hugo Chávez: Unraveling Venezuela’s Revolutionary Path

By Brian A. Nelson

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Squatter City

By Michael Eamonn Miller , Photography by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

This is Not a Requiem for Detroit

By Erika Meitner , Photography by Ryan Spencer Reed

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

City of Dust, City of Stones

By Kwame Dawes , Photography by Andre Lambertson

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Breathing In

By J. Malcolm Garcia

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Garbage City

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

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Vultures Rising

By Paul Reyes , Photography by Ellen Reyes

Memoir

MEMOIR / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Coolie Women Are in Demand Here

By Gaiutra Bahadur

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Her Silence, Her Voice

By Silvana Paternostro

Photography

PHOTOGRAPHY / ISSUE: Spring 2011

China’s E-Waste City

By Chien-ming Chung , Photography by Chien-ming Chung

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Writs of Possession

By Benjamin Percy

FICTION / ISSUE: Spring 2011

Rancor

By Fabrizio Mejía Madrid

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2011

From Faith Love Stupidity

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Spring 2011

The Rude Wasting of Old Time

By Ted Genoways

Contributor Profiles

Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2013). He has edited more than a dozen anthologies.

Meera Subramanian

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning independent journalist, author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis (PublicAffairs, 2015), and a contributing editor to Orion Magazine.