Summer 2012

Volume 88/3

Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy may have pushed Burma from an isolated nation to a potential partner to the rest of the world. Original reporting and photojournalism offer insight into pro-democracy activists, rebel camps, and ruling generals.

Summer 2012

Volume 88, Number 3

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Reporting

REPORTING / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Black Zone

By Robert Young Pelton , Photography by Jason Florio

REPORTING / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Last Happy Skull

By Elliott D. Woods

REPORTING / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Dissident Thunder

By Delphine Schrank , Photography by Christopher Bartlett

REPORTING / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Irrawaddy Daze

By Jason Motlagh

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Forty Acres and a Year

By Chuck Leavell , Photography by Andrew Kornylak

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Lady & The Generals

By Donovan Webster

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Ruthlessness and Art-Making

By Janna Malamud Smith

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Kay Ryan’s Delicate Strength

By Willard Spiegelman

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2012

China’s Little Yosemite

By Mark Jenkins , Photography by Corey Rich

Memoir

MEMOIR / ISSUE: Summer 2012

My First Coup d’Etat

By John Dramani Mahama

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Fact & Fiction

By Michael Dirda

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Red Stick

By Madison Smartt Bell

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Just So

By Edith Pearlman

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Elegy for Marlin

By Karen An-hwei Lee

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Greatest Show on Earth

By Charlotte Matthews

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Prayer for My Octogenarian

By Karen An-hwei Lee

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Year of Not Believing

By Charlotte Matthews

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Remembrance Day, 11/11/11

By Jim Tilley

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Hunger River

By Traci Brimhall

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

About the Lakeshore

By H.L. Hix

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

A Garret in Paris

By William Logan

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

For the Missing

By William Logan

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

The Bed Sleeps with No One

By Kathryn Starbuck

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Alone with Me

By Kathryn Starbuck

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Chorus

By Catherine Barnett

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Sweet Double, Talk-Talk: xix.

By Catherine Barnett

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Providence

By Catherine Barnett

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Summer 2012

Burma Exhales

By Donovan Webster

Contributor Profiles

Delphine Schrank

Delphine Schrank is a contributing editor to VQR and The Washington Post’s former correspondent in Burma. She is currently writing a book, The Rebel of Rangoon.