• Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey on Katrina and Gulfport • Gregory Orr on his 1965 Alabama kidnapping • James Kirchick on the South African Afrikaner homeland • Tom Sleigh on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria • A portfolio of Palestinian and Israeli poetry • On-the-ground reports from Iraq and Syria by David Enders and Daniel Alarcón. • Short stories by up-and-coming authors Sana Krasikov, Nina McConigley, and Kanishk Tharoor.
Gregory Orr is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
James Kirchick is an assistant editor at the New Republic, a columnist for the Washington Examiner, and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Blade.