• Featuring a special portfolio on AIDS in Africa with reports by Helen Epstein, Philip Alcabes, and Jann Turner, and photo essays by Charter Weeks and Gideon Mendel. • Another installment of Art Spiegelman’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!” • Lawrence Weschler on the graphics of the Solidarity Movement. • Helon Habila on African novelist Dambudzo Marechera. • Fiction by Steve Almond, Deborah Eisenberg, John McNally, and Binyavanga Wainaina. • Poetry by Billy Collins, Marilyn Hacker, and Charles Wright.