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Table of Contents

  1. Featured Contributors
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  1. Summer Reading
  2. W Ralph Eubanks
  3. pp. 10-11
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Amateur Hour

  1. Paper Perfect: Robert Lang and the Science of Origami
  2. Robert Lang, Joshua Foer
  3. pp. 12-19
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Talisman

  1. Away
  2. Roxana Robinson
  3. pp. 20-23
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Mapping

  1. The Half-Life of a Lake
  2. Reif Larsen
  3. pp. 24-25
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  1. The Giving Flood: Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia’s “beating heart,” is threatened by the competing needs of a rapidly developing nation. Can a new kind of conservation save it?
  2. Chris Berdik, Ruom Collective
  3. pp. 26-51
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Memoirs

  1. Reformed
  2. Garret Keizer
  3. pp. 74-86
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  1. A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses
  2. Camille T. Dungy
  3. pp. 175-181
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Dispatch

  1. Lost Causes: Confederate reenactors take pride in their Southern heritage, but struggle with the centrality of slavery and racism to the Confederacy
  2. Jesse Dukes, Jonno Rattman
  3. pp. 88-105
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  1. We a Baddd People
  2. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
  3. pp. 106-117
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  1. Losing Sparta: The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity
  2. Esther Kaplan, David M. Barreda
  3. pp. 118-135
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Poetry

  1. Anarcha: J. Marion Sims Opens My Body for the Thirty-First Time, and: 1973: My Mother Cleaves Herself in Two, and: Late That Summer, and: Theodore Bilbo Attends My Sickbed
  2. T J Jarrett
  3. pp. 52-55
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  1. Linux for Lettuce: Hacking the Seed Industry
  2. Lisa M. Hamilton
  3. pp. 56-69
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  1. Witness This, and: Return
  2. John Freeman
  3. pp. 70-73
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  1. Reconstruction
  2. Brian Sneeden
  3. p. 87
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  1. The Pillage, and: The Hotdog, and: The Girls
  2. Jill Bialosky
  3. pp. 136-139
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  1. Elegy, and: Election Day
  2. Chanda Feldman
  3. pp. 172-174
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Fiction

  1. Map-Reading
  2. Richard Bausch
  3. pp. 140-147
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  1. Leon’s Fire
  2. Adam Boucher
  3. pp. 148-157
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  1. Long Bright Line
  2. Josh Weil
  3. pp. 158-171
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Essay

  1. All in Favor, Say “I”: How Memoirists Use Style to Shape Substance
  2. Beth Ann Fennelly
  3. pp. 182-186
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Recent Books

  1. Archive of an Unraveling Future: New Stories by Antonya Nelson
  2. Danielle Evans
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  1. Female Friendship: Debut Novels by Rufi Thorpe and Emily Gould
  2. S. Kirk Walsh
  3. pp. 191-194
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  1. Journey Through the Past: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Endless Amble
  2. John Lingan
  3. pp. 195-198
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  1. Sigmund Freud, the Never-Ending Storyteller
  2. William Giraldi
  3. pp. 199-204
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Fine Distinctions

  1. Solstice vs. Equinox
  2. Gregory McNamee
  3. p. 205
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