Spring 2014 Issue

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Letters From …

Letter from Maasailand: Seeds of Change

David McDannald

Works in Progress

Looking Back, Warily, But With Affection

David Guterson

Book Reviews

Articles

Loving Animals to Death

James McWilliams

How can we raise them humanely and then butcher them?

What Killed My Sister?

Priscilla Long

The answer—schizophrenia—only leads to more perplexing questions

On Loneliness

Edward Hoagland

We value our solitude until it pinches

The Making of PoBiz Farm

Maxine Kumin

After it became our permanent home, we overfilled it with overloved horses and dogs

The Presence of Absence

Bethany Vaccaro

Our losses give vitality to our lives

A Whole Day Nearer Now

Doris Grumbach

But all life’s passion not quite spent

Fiction

Poetry

Two Poems

Charles Baudelaire

Translated by David Lehman

Sky Ghazaal

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Robin Magowan

Arts

Realism With a Heart

Richard Locke

The Dardenne brothers bring an idiosyncratic sympathy to their portrayals of Belgian lowlifes

The Daily Scholar

How to Travel Without Seeing

By Andrés Neuman

This week, read an excerpt from the Argentinian novelist’s dispatches from Latin America

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

After yet another nuclear test in North Korea—the fifth and largest this year—life behind the Bamboo Curtain seems more inscrutable than ever. Eben Wood’s visit to Pyongyang, the seat of Kim Jong Un’s regime, offers a glimpse of life inside the Hermit Kingdom