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Table of Contents

  1. Featured Contributors
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  1. The Promises of a Continent
  2. Paul Reyes
  3. pp. 8-9
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  1. Subway Rorschach
  2. Neil Shea
  3. p. 10
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  1. Rainbow Weather in Kabul
  2. Rianna Pauline Starheim
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  1. Not Even My Own
  2. Jeff Sharlet
  3. p. 12
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  1. No Republican Shall Inherit
  2. Randy R. Potts
  3. p. 13
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Amateur Hour

  1. The Sky Is Calling: Jim Edwards and the Search for Intellingent Life in the Universe
  2. Jack Hitt
  3. pp. 14-19
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Notes to Self

  1. Finding Ways to Dial It Up
  2. Richard Blanco
  3. pp. 20-23
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Essays

  1. Fear Factors: On the Psychology of Safety and Danger
  2. Veronique Greenwood
  3. pp. 24-28
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  1. Long Way Home: The Circumnavigations of Henk De Velde
  2. Ryan Bradley
  3. pp. 30-36
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Paths to Refuge

  1. Paths to Refuge: A Special Section
  3. pp. 38-39
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  1. Belgrade Station: The Perils of the Balkan Route
  2. George Butler
  3. pp. 40-51
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  1. The New Berliners: Navigating Life After Syria
  2. Laura Kasinof, Alex Potter, George Butler
  3. pp. 52-63
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  1. Milad's Arrival: A Boyhood Seven Countries Later
  2. Milad Ahkabyar, Diàna Markosian
  3. pp. 64-87
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  1. The Useful Village: In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country's principles
  2. Ben Mauk, Valerie Schmidt, George Butler
  3. pp. 88-111
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Poetry

  1. Factory
  2. Monica Sok
  3. p. 29
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  1. An Old Man, Full of Days
  2. Matthew Minicucci
  3. p. 37
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  1. Heart Swathing in Late Summer, and: Calling the Lost, and: I Shovel Into the Heart to Find Its Naked Face, and: Ear to the Night
  2. Mai Der Vang
  3. pp. 112-115
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  1. I Know
  2. Paul Guest
  3. pp. 116-117
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  1. State
  2. Beth Bachmann
  3. pp. 137-141
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  1. Place Like Home, and: Mise En Place, and: What She Didn't Leave
  2. Amy Woolard
  3. pp. 142-145
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  1. A Boy Steps Into the Water, and: Bottleglass, and: Tower of Babel
  2. Kaveh Akbar
  3. pp. 166-169
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Fiction

  1. Personal Day
  2. Catherine Lacey
  3. pp. 118-122
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  1. June 25
  2. Christina Ward-Niven
  3. pp. 123-130
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  1. Vapors
  2. Danny Lorberbaum
  3. pp. 131-136
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Reporting

  1. They Call It Canaan
  2. Jacob Kushner, Allison Shelley
  3. pp. 146-165
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Memoir

  1. Kodak Moments: The Art of Nostalgia in the Digital Age
  2. Robin Wasserman
  3. pp. 170-177
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Criticism

  1. Professional Lives: Career Women on Film
  2. Michelle Orange
  3. pp. 178-181
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  1. Unsettled: On Yiyun Li, Mental Illness, and Writing in the West
  2. Porochista Khakpour
  3. pp. 182-184
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  1. Songs From the Revolution: Two Takes on the Political Novel
  2. Josh Cook
  3. pp. 185-188
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  1. Bound to Succeed: The Role of Ambition Among Twenty-First-Century Women
  2. Allison Wright
  3. pp. 189-191
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Fine Distinctions

  1. Of Sanctuary, Refuge, Migrants, and Refugees
  2. Gregory McNamee
  3. p. 192
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