Summer 2006

• James Ellroy on the film version of his novel The Black Dahlia. • A story from Alice Munro’s new collection coming out this fall. • Appreciations of Alice Munro by Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, and others. • Charles Simic, David Rieff, and Dimiter Kenarov on the Balkans in the wake of Slobodan Miloševic. • Larry Sabato proposes a new way to elect our President. • The Case Against Robert D. Kaplan by Tom Bissell. • New poetry by Garrett Hongo, Glyn Maxwell, and recent Pulitzer Prize–winner Claudia Emerson. • Part 2 of Marjane Satrapi’s “Chicken with Plums.”