FICTION

Chris Adrian WHY ANTICHRIST?
“He is the son of the devil but I think that with the right role models he could be a very productive member of society.”

Nicholas Montemarano MAKE BELIEVE
I woke with my face against a cold cab window, then Alex helped me through the rain and into her bed, where a few hours earlier I had fake-raped her at her request.

Sam Lipsyte EXPRESSIVE
If you know how to work your face you can make people think you feel anything you want, and with that power you can feel up anything you want.

Ron Rash BACK OF BEYOND
“Troubled times,” Parson said. “But good for business.”

Theodore Ross THE BUNDLE . THE UPCOMING . THE VENGEANCE
“Binh is with child. You are the Father. The Family’s joy is great.” This comes as a surprise to Martin.

NEW VOICE—FICTION

Vanessa Veselka ZAZEN
Mr. Tofu Scramble says I should go anyway, that it’s too late. I want to but I can’t. Maybe when the bombs stop, or at least let up. Nobody thinks it’ll stay like this.

Elizabeth Ziemska A MURDER OF CROWS
Gophers are not a vengeful species, but rarely does an opportunity present itself to enact both justice and retribution.

Henk Rossouw UNSLUNG
Word must have gotten around among the hotel staff, Bosman thought, about the photographer who’d come to take pictures of Rwanda for an American magazine and who left big tips.

POETRY

Nick Flynn
FIRE

Victoria Chang
SEVEN INFIDELITIES
DEAR PROFESSOR

Molly Bendall
TO PAY THE DEBT THIS DAY BEGAN
BLURRY EVIDENCE

Mike Albo
JUNK MAIL POEMS

Andrew Michael Roberts
MINUS THE ANIMALS

Cecilia Woloch
POSTCARD TO X FROM WARSAW,
ULICA PIEKNA (“PRETTY STREET”)
LETHE

Timothy Liu
ARS POETICA

Cate Marvin
YOUR CHILDHOOD
ALL MY WIVES

INTERVIEWS

THE DICHOTOMY OF EVIL
Tin House publisher and editor in chief Win McCormack talks with the Manson girl who got away.

ESSAYS & FEATURES

Aaron Hamburger A TOUCH OF EVIL
Sometimes even great writers fail to look the Holocaust in the face.

Cintra Wilson THE GLASS PARKING LOT
or Summer in the Swamp of Moral Relativism
Five humid weeks in DC with our nation’s top neocons and sociopaths.

Brandon R. Schrand WRESTLING GENE SIMMONS AND OTHER DEMONS
On the many facets of the long-tongued one.

Danielle Trussoni STOP LOOKING
Her father was mesmerized by the photos of his Vietnam kills, and so is she.

LOST & FOUND

FRANCINE PROSE on Gitta Sereny’s Into That Darkness

BRIAN DELEEUW on Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle

GLEN DAVID GOLD on the works of Thomas Dixon

MAGGIE ROBBINS on the works of Charles Williams

J.C. HALLMAN on Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

THOMAS SCOTT MCKENZIE on Jack Huddleston’s Death Scenes

MICHAEL KOBRE on Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo

LESLIE JAMISON on Marcus’s The Vision of Tundale

BLITHE SPIRITS

Kevin Winchester MOONSHINE: A Primer
Everything you need for a little white lightnin’.

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