January 2009

Phantom Pain

The daughter of a Nazi soldier recalls the spark and fizzle of her tenth New Year’s Eve.
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Features

The Man Behind the Curtain
by Kristen French
January 2009 - For Brazilian-born artist and modern-day trickster Vik Muniz, subverting his own images is all part of the game.
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Interview

I’m a Liberal, But...
An interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy
November 2008 - The celebrity polemicist on the resurgence of anti-Semitism, an Arab brand of fascism, and how the election of Obama could reconstitute the grand alliance of Jews and African Americans.
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Preservation
by Ron Tanner
December 2008 - The inhabitants of the Marshall Islands have endured waves of immigration, exploitation, and America’s nuclear testing. Now under threat from rising sea levels, their storytelling culture offers us a cautionary tale.
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Christ Über Alles
An interview with Jeff Sharlet
November 2008 - The religion reporter talks about his experiences with “the Family,” the secret Christ-loving, Hitler-quoting powerbrokers of the modern world.
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Poetry

Two Poems
by Umberto Saba, translated by George Hochfield and Leonard Nathan
January 2009 - It’s as if for a man battered by the wind, / blinded by snow—all around him an arctic / inferno pummels the city— / a door opens along a wall.
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Fiction

Jesse’s Story
by Ru S. Freeman
January 2009 - I smell the already decaying flowers and the fresh blooms neatly laid by anonymous hands. The skid marks are already filled in. There is no trace of him.
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Flocks of Never
by Drew Blanchard
December 2008 - In these moments, I’d imagine, / though I never saw anything / like it, the spray of twelve gauge / buckshot entering the body / of a goose in mid-air, / and its mate, its mate for life, / would honk, drop down, / honk, follow the limp body / to the ground.
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The Trapdoor
by Sergio Ramírez Mercado, translated by David Unger
December 2008 - Five rounds passed, without pain or glory. Nothing happened in the ring to excite the sparse crowd.
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